Ping!
I bought a $1,200 Kodak camera back in the mid-1980s and still have it. The odds of film being available in twenty years? There might be a South Korean company around making it, but for developmental purposes....I don’t see any US company by 2025 that you can get your pictures made.
Mama don’t take my Kodachrome,
Mama don’t take my Kodachrome,
Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away...
My one son’s girlfriend is (was, just graduated) a grad student in photography. She tells us that there are still sources for film.
My Dad worked for Polaroid for 40 years.He worked his heart out for that company and he was pretty well rewarded for that work.But the company started to fail a few years before he died.It broke his heart....kinda like how the guys responsible for building the WTC must have felt after 9/11.For years Polaroid bought chemicals from Kodak.They weren’t direct competitors so there was no reason not to have such a relationship.My Dad made many a trip to Rochester to meet with Kodak brass.It would break my Dad’s heart to see what’s happened to Kodak as well.