"Say Cheese, and Say Goodbye"

Kodak's decision to stop selling traditional film cameras in North America marks the formal end of tradition. It's easier, smoother, more efficient and certainly more expensive today to take pictures on computer chips, converting memories into e-mailable electrons and pixels. These images can be stored, transmitted, printed at home, even erased and reused. Previous generations of Americans grew up- and can now look back on themselves growing up- with those spools of film wrapped in …

…device to modern children, who carry their entertainment in battery-powered, pocket-sized music machines. It's all part of a process, presumably. Someday, when palm-sized camera's transmit video images directly in to the eyeglasses of distant relatives, our grandchildren will not believe there was anything as primitive as a photo CD, let alone film. Meanwhile, we hope Kodak takes a nice snapshot of the last film camera for sale in North America- and does it on film.