where there’s smoke there’s forum fire
According to the front page of the BJP web site, Kodak are ending all production of slide film, with stocks for the next 6-9 months only. So much for Kodak saying they are staying with film, "This doesn't affect our Portra films, our Ektar and black-and-white films."
What they mean is it doesn't affect color NEGATIVE films...
Just as I was thinking about buying a few rolls of slide film too! So I guess I had better fall in love with Miss Fuji, 'cos who the hell else is there now?
Ive always used Fuji and I now am glad I did (Ilford for the B&W)
kyoshinikon said:
Ive always used Fuji and I now am glad I did (Ilford for the B&W)
Would you believe it, but I used to actually live in the town called "Ilford" after which Ilford Films got its name. Going back to the 1960's we always knew which way the wind was blowing if you could smell fixer, or the distinctly powdery smell of whatever was used to make the "developer of the day". LOL!
It got much better in the few years before they moved it all up to the wilds of Manchester or whatever part of the UK they use now, but it really was out of place in suburban North London.
By the way, the company was called Britania Works Comapny originally as it was next to "Britania Wharf" on a canal/river that was a tributary to the River Lea in East London, another branch of which goes past where the Olympics are going to be this year.
Whoever goes there can just whip out their new D4 and take a photo of it! Got to being this back to Nikon, somehow... ;)
That is really cool. One of my friends (older guy) worked for them 50+ years and gave me a book on their history. It is funny how photo companies used to be more involved in the community than they are now. It was probably not $6 a roll either.
While I am happy for the D4 I almost wonder if DSLR's will die at the D5-D6 era. Our world is changing too fast for me.
I had a feeling they were going to dump their E-6 though. Not only is it hard to find a place that does it (unless you do your research) but it is really expensive to self process. All of the stores that used kodak commercial process dumped that last month so I am really skeptical about what they mean by "keeping film"
kyoshinikon said:
That is really cool. One of my friends (older guy) worked for them 50+ years and gave me a book on their history.
How ironic! The factory site in Ilford is now a J. Sainsbury store (food and general goods supermarket) and the parking lot/car park at the back is where the majority of the production lines and chemical works were located. Go to "Roden Street, Ilford, England, United Kingdom" in Google Maps and the part round the curve where the new apartment building is where the wharf was and the back wall of the Sainsbury store (Riverdene Road), is where the back wall of Ilford Films was.
kyoshinikon said:
I had a feeling they were going to dump their E-6 though. Not only is it hard to find a place that does it (unless you do your research) but it is really expensive to self process. All of the stores that used kodak commercial process dumped that last month so I am really skeptical about what they mean by "keeping film"
EXACTLY.
What you say about no more processing as of last month is certainly true. Its as if someone wanted to kill off film ... No wait! REALLY?
(Ironic mode off).
I learned photography with Ektachome. I got most of my lessons in a photo shop in Berkeley where the owner would go through my slides and explain what I did wrong and how I could do better. I wonder if I can find any of those slides...some were actually pretty good.
I've given technical presentations and papers all over the world with sides I made on Ektachome. With the advent of PowerPoint carrying a carousel of slides in one's carry on luggage for an international flight is no longer part of life. I stopped using Ektachrome when I started needing digital files. I went to negative film and scanned my prints into my files.
Sic transit gloria.
I used to live in Rochester N.Y., the whole town would smelled like beef stew when they were rendering bones to make gelatin for film emulsion. Sometimes it smelled really bad.
I imagine film and silver based chemical photography will go the way of Polaroid. After they stopped production some of their former engineers reopened a plant and sell their product primarily to the Art and hobbyist crowd. Search: impossible project.
I’m still looking for a cheap F5. Then I’ll shoot Tri-X, push it to 800ASA, develop it in Diafine, lock the Darkroom door and have fun! I love the smell of acetic acid!
andrewz said:
Search: impossible project.I’m still looking for a cheap F5. Then I’ll shoot Tri-X, push it to 800ASA, develop it in Diafine, lock the Darkroom door and have fun! I love the smell of acetic acid!
Search for "Film Photography Project".
As for F5's, eBay has a small supply, upwards of $250 body only...
Yeah, sad moment. I started my graphic arts career working with Ektachrome duplicating film, making "dupes" and multi-element photo-composites, a process now regularly done in Photoshop.
It is sad Kodak is dying this slow death. Seeing how every sell-able division has been sold, the film division was left in the cold. It looks like 2 years and Kodak film will be dead if someone doesn't step up and buy it.
TaoTeJared said:
It looks like 2 years and Kodak film will be dead if someone doesn't step up and buy it.
I got $100 in my wallet now, so if all us NR posters put $100 into a purchase fund, we should be good to go... LOL!
Sadly the way they are going, the company can't be worth more than THAT, can it?
Last I looked it was worth $0 but you would have to take on about -$3.5 billion in debt.
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