Today when we see a film canister we think where can I hide that. But it wasn't always that way.
Gone are the days of taking photos and sending off the film to the processors before the wait to see if any of the photos were any good. Today we live in an instantaneous digital world where most photos don't even get printed.
The apparent death knell for film first rang as far back as 1975. In December of that year, Steve Sasson, a young engineer working for photographic giant Kodak, built the first working example of a digital camera. It may have weighed nearly eight pounds and stored its (black and white) images to a cassette tape, but Sasson's experimental prototype was a revolutionary device. The digital genie was out of the bottle.
Digital snap taking now rules, first it was digital cameras but now most phones take reasonably good pictures. If we no longer buy film cameras why would we need films. They stopped recording sales of film cameras in 2008 as they were statistically insignificant.
The idea for this puzzle originated from a conversation with my daughter who likes taking photos but has never experienced using film.
There were many different formats available from many manufacturers. From the images below can you identify the formats and the manufacturers. I have used all of these at some point or other.
Some of these have numeric references which is the number you need and the others is simply a count of the number of letters.
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
The cache can be found @:
N 53 (A-B)+G . A+B+C+2D+E+F+2G+H+I
W 006 H÷I . A+B+2C+D+E+F+G+I
