What film should have been?

[EdwardKaraa]

What if Kodak never had the good/bad idea to invent digital sensors?

Just for fun, what film in 2013 would have been?

A couple of ideas:

- Super duper resolution grainless wide latitude film.
- Super hard coating, can't scratch the film even with a razor blade.
- Auto-developing film in the camera when you rewind it into the cassette.
- Auto-iso.
- Grain free iso 12500.
- Super duper scanner scans an entire roll in 36 seconds in raw format.

 

[sanmich]

Kodachrome, Tri-X, Plus-X

oh...wait...:bang::bang:

 

[daveleo]

Film should have been re-usable after scanning !

 

[EdwardKaraa]

Film should have been re-usable after scanning !

LOL

Great idea 🙂

 

[Sejanus.Aelianus]

Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.

So, I'd be using Pan Gloss film to take candide pictures of El Dorado...

😀

 

[Sejanus.Aelianus]

Come to think of it, I'd probably be using Volt air batteries to power the camera...

 

[sanmich]

Film should have been re-usable after scanning !

Next, put the scanner in the camera instead of film....

 

[FrankS]

But if this ideal film had no grain, it would look like ... digital. 🙁

 

[Clint Troy]

Simple: our cell phones would be accepting 110 film.

 

[craygc]

But if this ideal film had no grain, it would look like ... digital. 🙁

Exactly... I don't get this quest for grainlessness. Grain is what makes B&W great...

 

[Spanik]

6400 iso Kodachrome that is just as great as the 64 iso. And it should come in 120 format. And can be develloped at any lab. Otherwise I'm not asking much.

 

[vitaly66]

A dream for 2013: big rollfilm makes a comeback!

616 anyone?

 

[Godfrey]

Next, put the scanner in the camera instead of film....

We had that already. It was called Polaroid. ;-)

 

[Clint Troy]

We had that already. It was called Polaroid. ;-)

No.
You're mixing scanner and printer.

 

[sevo]

Simple: our cell phones would be accepting 110 film.

I always wanted a cell phone with integrated Minox. Perhaps I'll build one some day - I have enough old phones and a Minox MX about...

 

[icebear]

What if Kodak never had the good/bad idea to invent digital sensors?

Just for fun, what film in 2013 would have been?

A couple of ideas:

- Super duper resolution grainless wide latitude film.
- Super hard coating, can't scratch the film even with a razor blade.
- Auto-developing film in the camera when you rewind it into the cassette.
- Auto-iso.
- Grain free iso 12500.
- Super duper scanner scans an entire roll in 36 seconds in raw format.

You just forgot the USB3 port ....😀

 

[Godfrey]

IMO, film already was/is everything it should be.

Were film still the dominant recording medium, I expect we would simply see more of the incremental development of tonal capture and dynamic range that we see today in films like Fuji ACROS.

G

 

[thegman]

I would have liked to see large format roll film. If they can make 120 in roll format, why not double the size and then you could have 4x5 roll film, in fact 4xanything, same as 120 can be 6x4.5 or 6x17.

 

[DNG]

basically....

Just a scratch resistant base and emulsion sides
Zero Curl after drying, although Ilford and Kodak B&W are dry fairly flat.

 

[sevo]

I would have liked to see large format roll film. If they can make 120 in roll format, why not double the size and then you could have 4x5 roll film, in fact 4xanything, same as 120 can be 6x4.5 or 6x17.

Has been done. 5" and 9 1/2" bulk rolls still are available - these are the regular sizes aerial cameras use. And 3 1/4" (QP) to 5" wide roll film types on wood/metal rolls similar to 120 were not that odd early on in the history of film. Kodak had some dozen variations on the topic of roll films wider than 3") - the last, 122, was cancelled not that far away, in the early seventies.