James Burke : Connections², E0708 : "Photo Finish" & "Separate Ways", 1 of 5

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Episodes 7 and 8 of James Burke's Connections², which is the first of two sequels to the original Connections series. In this series, Mr. Burke continues his investigations into the interconnectedness of ideas and inventions that, usually serendipitously, led to important changes our modern-day world. The format has changed to 25 minute episodes with each episode less focused and much more free-form. Mr. Burke may take a particular historical figure and then expand on an array of subsequent, and important discoveries or inventions directly, or indirectly resulting from there, or else he may take several origins and show how they ultimately came together resulting in some unexpected consequence (as in Connections 1).

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[gerjaison]

I have friends who worked in photography, and unfortunately analog film is nearly being obsoleted as Kodak and Polaroid had retired their film plant.

I think Fuji is continuing with limited production but i'm not too sure about it.

[JamesBurkeWeb]

The stuff should be easy enough for an amateur to produce no?

I mean, if you had sheets of plastic and built a machine to punch holes in it and then coated it with the right chemicals (which I don't know off-hand!) seems like it may be possible to make your own.

Of course you need the cartridges but those could be made too, probably out of standard household junk. Or take used ones and refill them? Not sure... but it sounds like more fun that way ;)

- JBW

[gerjaison]

Yeah it is possible to make, but its durability, quality and consistency does matter to people who prefers to focus on the camera.

But as an experimenter, i would try to do anything DIY in my workshop, these include and not limiting to making plastic (I alway have a vision to muck around with home made injection molding)