Unless they've stopped recently, Fuji continues to make film that could be used in the Kodak instant cameras. Among my collection of odd photo items is a Durst slide printer that used Kodak instant film. I used to buy the Fuji film for it from B & H after the Kodak debacle.
Bob On Jul 14, 2006, at 3:32 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > P. J. Alling wrote: > >> A friend of mine who did some wading into the shallow end of the >> Polaroid patents, came the conclusion that Polaroid had patented the >> process of osmosis, which was the basis for their claim. He was >> astounded that Polaroid won the case. > > I was living in Rochester, NY at the time of the Kodak instant cameras > and the Polaroid lawsuit. Based on what I recall from newspaper > coverage at the time (and it was *extensive*, needless to say!), the > *mechanical* design of the system was pivotal. The Polaroid system > used a reservoir "blister" at the end of each print which contained > development chemistry and after exposure, the print was forced through > a set of precision rollers which broke the blister open to release the > chemistry and spread the chemicals evenly over the photosensitive part > of the print media (while still containing everything inside the print > media as a whole). Kodak essentially copied this patented process > which, though it might seem "obvious" now, wasn't considered so at the > time. (At least not by the court that heard the case, which is what > counts!) Newspaper articles around the time of the verdict had all > kinds of diagrams of both mechanisms. > > -- > Mark Roberts Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > 412-687-2835 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
