Well, Kodak itself in Rochester makes film, as well as certain industrial products like estar film base which they sell to other manufacturers. They apparently aren't themselves the marketing entity. Alaris is. But it wasn't all that long ago that private little camera stores did buy direct from...
I think you are greatly underestimating how many personnel and other resources the combination of Eastman Kodak and KodakAlaris would need to add to do this on a worldwide basis.
They might be able to do that if they limited their market to the USA - if they could raise enough capital for the...
Kodak Moments Announces New 120 Format Gold 200 Film
ROCHESTER, N.Y. March 16, 2022 – Kodak Moments, a division of KodakAlaris, continues the expansion of its color film portfolio with the launch of Kodak Professional Gold 200 film in a new 120 format 5-roll pro-pack for medium format cameras...
Kodak does not set an MSRP but their press release clearly stated that it is “intended” to be 25% less expensive than Portra and Ektar. I’ve actually not often seen a statement like that. The fact that it is immediately proven to be untrue is imho embarrassing for KA. If they would have said...
KodakAlaris and Eastman Kodak together are far too small - they lack the immense resources that would be required to replace the international distributors.
It is. As per the KodakAlaris website: http://imaging.kodakalaris.com/photographers/film/color
Here is the data sheet, which also covers the 35mm product (on acetate base): http://imaging.kodakalaris.com/sites/default/files/files/products/E7022.pdf
Here is the FAQ page - note that it shares...
yes I know that, all KodakAlaris/Moments whatever they call it and all gets coated by approved Kodak machines. I’m not talking at all about quality at all. I’m talking about a consumer film being labeled as professional now just because it’s being sold in 120.
Good point!
I don’t want to...
So would I. I keep bugging KodakAlaris every once in a while with an email asking them to make this film again. But Kodak hasn't introduced anything new for the past couple years other then Ektachrome and TMAX 3200, so Im not really hopeful either. They haven't even brought Plus X back either.
...all lab customers…It could not have come at a worse time,’ a leading Fujifilm US executive revealed." .. "Sino Promise acquired the KodakAlaris paper slitting plant in Xiamen, China, in 2015 and the KodakAlaris photochemical plant in Wuxi, China in 20126. Last year it acquired the Kodak...
...could call them, :errm:. I'm just curious what's going on, SinoPromise Wuxi, a former Kodak plant (in fact Eastman Kodak still has a operation there) has been making every color chemistry for Kodak then KodakAlaris for years. It maybe a distributor issue. The Asian market is where the...
...with the entity that used to bear that name.
In other cases, the owners of the brand name have maintained and enhanced the brand by associating it with an entity that has other presence of value. Harman does that with Ilford, just as Eastman Kodak and KodakAlaris do that together with Kodak...
...used by Kodak in their Single Use Cameras (SUC). Maybe it is the product which is intended to be offered again in 35mm single rolls: One KodakAlaris representative has one year ago talked about one film type being reintroduced to the market again, which was already offered some years ago...
So, I started developing with EcoPro right after this thread was started. I've been through precisely one bag of the stuff.
I've started with xtol times from massive dev chart on every stock I've used so far, and just followed Kodak instructions (adding time after 5 rolls, after 10 rolls...
I am having the exact problem with the XTOL produced by that Chinese company, the one contracted to do XTOL with Alaris. The descriptions of the problems with Eco pro and underdevelopment are precisely what I am experiencing with the new XTOL. I've used the original Kodak manufactured XTOL for...
FWIW, my sources indicate that it was KodakAlaris (the still film Kodak distributors) who were the main motivators behind the re-introduction of Ektachrome. The motion picture people at Eastman Kodak joined in later.
I also see this as an extremely effective way to keep KodakAlaris' markup policy in check. Imagine Fuji reintroducing the "new" 400H Pro (Portra 400) and managing to keep it at 25% less than Portra 400 (as it currently seems to be the case of C200 vs Gold 200). Eastman Kodak would still earn...
...on the level of demand.
https://imaging.kodakalaris.com/sites/default/files/files/products/P3200_FAQs.pdf
‘Church also shares that KodakAlaris is also planning to release a 120 format line of TMax P3200 black-and-white negative film.’...
I don't know its origin, but will share an anecdote about it. When visiting my late father in New York for the last time in November of 1994 (he died January 2, 1995), I did everything possible to make him feel "normal" despite his being in a wheelchair. He'd always been fastidious about...
Alaris needs to generate profits for the custodians of the pension fund. Eastman Kodak seems to do a great job at continuing to produce amazing color negative film, and the rest. Every input is seeing price hikes. A Snickers bar cost $1. I prefer the Snickers Almond, which is the closest thing...
The ongoing pandemic and supply crisis makes any schedule fluid. I think there's plenty of opportunity to fill out Kodak's line up.
Obvious would be a more amateur oriented 120 color negative film. If Kodak could manage infrared film, that would be quite a feat. Whatever is in the works it's...
According to people usually well informed there was really some plan to release new films in 2021, but it has been clearly postponed or cancelled. Since there was no official annoucement from Kodak (Eastman or Alaris) there is nothing to claim. Just to Andy Church for being a bit sloppy...
Maybe but worth exploring either way. Cinestill does what they do, and had a TON of QC problems in the past. It's gotten a lot better but you still have issues sometimes. Considering 220 was more than double the cost of 120 back when they killed it, it would still be true now. People who...
If KodakAlaris would sent out Portra 400 master rolls or rather pancakes for such, they would
-) canabalize their own Portra type 120 business
-) feed a deal where they do not yield all profit
-) risk their reputation in case of bad quality of the conversion
Well, based on our experiences...
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