It’s hard to tell when digital photography will hammer the final nail into the coffin of film based photographs, but just to be safe, Kodak is hedging its bets.
Not so long ago, the company introduced Kodak Photo CD, a player that can be connected to a TV or computer system and used to display photographic images electronically encoded on discs, much in the way music is stored on an audio compact disc.
The device opens the digital doorway to consumers, but you still need film to get in. The images are captured on film with a traditional camera; the film is then sent to Kodak, where the images are scanned, digitized, enhanced where necessary with some of the best photo editor software, and then stored on CDs and returned to the customer.