Leicaflex Loc: Cymru

It's a Kodak moment for digital age

Kodak's moment as photographic essential has long passed but the former film manufacturer has gained new recognition from dictionary compliers.

The company went bust five years ago, a victim of the digital camera revolution, but a new generation of photographers boast capturing a "Kodak moment".

The slogan, defined as "an occasion suitable for memorialising with a photograph", is one of the new entries in Oxforddictionaries.com, an offshoot of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Kodak's slogan reached its widest audience in the 1980s when television adverts used the refrain: "These are the moments, Kodak moments".

No one is sure why it has taken so long to reach the dictionary, but a spokeswoman said that terms are usually added because there has been a spike in their use on social media.

Other examples among more than 300 new entries include fashionable foods, including aquafaba, a liquid used in vegan cooking, res el hanout, a North African spice mixture, and gochujang, a spicy paste from Korea.

The environment was also a source of new entries.
A climate denier defined as "a person who rejects the proposition that climate change caused but human activity is occurring" and a climate refugee is someone forced to leave their home as a result of climate change.
Jack Malvern
Times News.

Tikva Loc: Waukesha, WI

Sad that Kodak was not able to transition to the digital age in some sort of fashion. I remember from my early days that Kodak film was the best and what we used all the time.

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

I use Panatomic X for B&W, Verichrome pro for color prints, and Kodachrome for slides. Would have never even thought of using anything than Kodak

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Arrogance and complacency.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Yes, "Kodak Moment" was a brilliant idea.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Oddly enough, it was Steve Sasson that developed the first digital camera in 1975. He was a Kodak engineer at the time.
--Bob

abc1234 Loc: Elk Grove Village, Illinois

That is a black and white film. Perhaps you are thinking of Kodacolor.

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

More likely, Vericolor. AKA "VPS"

For medium format B&W, I really liked Verichrome ...even better than Plus-X.
Made the chemistry look funky from the anti-haliation backing coming off.
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-26029-1.html

abc1234 Loc: Elk Grove Village, Illinois

You are right. I forgot about that. It was their professional line. They kept on making better and better color negative film right into the digital era. Seeing that was sad since you knew the days of film were limited.

I wonder what digital photography would have been like had Kodak survived. The company certainly made photography how great it was.

kb6kgx Loc: Simi Valley, CA

You’re probably thinking of “Vericolor” for print film. I don’t recall that there was a “Verichrome”, but all of the “-chrome” films were transparency (slide) film (Kodachrome, Ektachrome, etc.).

There was, of course, Agfa, Fuji and one or two others I can’t recall at the moment, but yes, Kodak was far and away the #1 choice.

Wingpilot Loc: Wasilla. Ak

Back in the day (60's) my preferred film was Kodachrome 25 and Ektachrome 60. I also tried Fujichrome for it's warm color saturation, as well as Agfachrome, but always went back to Kodak films. When I finally gave up on slides, as slides were a pain to view, and it seemed no one was interested in looking at your slides, anyway, I reverted to prints, using Kodacolor 100 and 200, as well as Fuji. Can't remember what Fuji called their color negative film. I never was much into B&W for some reason. Then along came the digital age, which made things better than Polaroid for instant pics.

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

Yes, there was a Verichrome....and it was a black & white neg film.
(helps to read previous posts)

More HERE on Verichrome (Orthochromatic) and Verichrome Pan (Panchromatic) black & white negative film.

abc1234 Loc: Elk Grove Village, Illinois

Oh, how we have forgotten about orthochromatic films! The next fad will be to do that digitally.

kb6kgx Loc: Simi Valley, CA

That was Fujicolor, which, I believe, is still in production.

Ilford also made a B&W film, though I never used it.

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

I wasn't aware the original Verichrome was orthochromatic until today.
One article I read said Verichrome had two light sensitive layers- one slow speed, the other higher.....for more latitude or dynamic range?
Maybe that's why I liked it...(or it was less expensive than Plus-X).
Sounds a bit like Fuji's Super CCD SR sensor with two sensor sites, one with higher sensitivity, the other with a low sensitivity.