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@fabulousrice In fact, some years ago, Russia's FSS/FIS (successor to the KGB) put in an order for - wait for it - electronic typewriters (Royal, if memory recalls), because these were considered...

@nextSibling Well, it *was* my fave while it was still around (if we're talking about the same film: Portra BW400CN). Switched back to Ilford XP2 Super when Kodak 86'd BW400.

If the battery is a Mercury cell, the camera likely can be modded to use a silver-oxide cell; I had my Konica Auto S3 modified just this way, and it works just fine.

Let's put it this way: If we're not in a position to look after media like this 30-40 years hence, it likely means we'll have bigger problems afoot.

When I gave up on SLRs in late 2001, I had two choices going forward: go digital or get with rangefinders. I went for the latter and wound up with a pair of Hexar RFs and trio of M-Hexanon glass...

My cat approves of your post.

Let's try a survey of those in the restaurant biz…twenty bucks says the stats there are even more bleak.

Damn…and I recall when magneto-optical drives were thought to be as bulletproof as could be, and look what happened to *that* format. :-(