When's the last time you bought film? Kodak hires restructuring lawyers

[Liberal_in_LA]

Kodak is hurting in the age of digital cameras. When's the last time you bought film? I was surprised to see a barrel full of film for sale at my local 99cent store. Haven't seen film for years.

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Kodak Seeks Help as Fears Mount .

[sakabatou]

1. Not since 2006.

[MADem]

2. Fairly recently, actually....not just film, but those cheapass disposable cameras.

I am always forgetting my camera, my cellphone is a cheap tracfone that can take a pic but not a very good one, so I will run into a drugstore and buy those cheapass throwaway cameras on occasion.

Then again, I'm probably not typical.

I just found an old roll of 400ASA film I must have shot oh, twenty five or thirty years ago. I suppose I should try to see if there's anything on it while I still can!!!!

[liberaltrucker]

3. Inevitable

I'm surprised it took this long. My heart goes
out to the workers involved.

x(

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. Kodak's been trying to make it on printers and photo related stuff

They haven't just been watching film go down the tube.

[richmwill]

5. Film? Can't even remember

Although I did buy a disposable camera one time, and that was 5 years ago.

[Tesha]

6. I'll bet the last time I bought film was when we held an event at our house...

...about twelve years ago and we bought a bunch of Kodak
disposable cameras for all the guests to shoot snaps with.

For ourselves, we haven't shot a roll of film since we bought
our now-long-since obsolete Nikon Coolpix 950 probably
fourteen years ago. We still have the old 35mm SLR and
all the kit, but it just sits collecting dust.

Sorry Kodak...

Tesha

[quiller4]

7. 3 days. I still shoot film in my old F2.

I use a digital point and shoot for photos I post to the web but when I want prints I prefer to shoot film.

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. wow! So folks still use film.

[Major Nikon]

10. Oh yeah, and not just grandmas either

A lot of enthusiasts still use film for a lot of different reasons.

[jwirr]

9. I think that film is probably on its way out but many of us old grandma's

still buy film because it gives us finished pictures for our walls and our wallets. And we do not have to know how to use the computer programs.

[no_hypocrisy]

11. I do.

And I prefer Kodak to Fuji film.

[dana_b]

12. um... years ago. n/t