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  1. MattKing

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    ...to their input costs, while trying to keep the price they were charging under control. I have no visibility on what price increases Kodak Alaris was dealing with, but the motion picture film catalogue certainly has revealed significant increases over a relatively short period of time. And...

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    It’s no secret… https://www.kodakalaris.com/Pressroom/News/2024/Kodak-Alaris-Announces-Acquisition-by-Kingswood-Capital-Management https://www.kingswood-capital.com/

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    Yes and therein lies a large debate on business philosophy and the benefits or otherwise of what some may regard as appropriate standards of business behaviour and others as the supremacy of a legal agreement which the new owners to whom I will refer as KA in the absence of knowing who they are...
  4. Alan Edward Klein

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    That's why I mentioned that the new company is in LA near Hollywood. I suspect some of the owners have connections with movie producers who use film. In any case, you can be a film enthusiast and a good businessman at the same time. Also, when companies like Fuji don't meet their demand...

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    ...range. And we are talking about markets with a total population of about 2 billion people. This growth is now completely gone, killed by Kodak Alaris price increases. Even worse, the demand is declining now there. Respooled film has been a way to at least attenuate the negative effects on...
  6. Alan Edward Klein

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    Your dad must have been a great guy.
  7. Alan Edward Klein

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    You realize you're hoping that a worldwide company that monopolized the film industry for a century including digital sensors but went bankrupt anyway being able to make a coherent strategy for the future?

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    Another brand heard from after a long while.. Lucky Film.

    Most probably. And especially now with the problematic monopoly-markup done by Kodak Alaris. But it also looks like American film shooters can be lucky by having special, very attractive deals: Midwest Photo - mpex.com - is selling Fuji 200 3-pack 36 for $18.95. So $6.32/roll only!! And the...

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    Yes, but that has been solved quite a while ago. And after the problem was solved we've seen more price increases done by Kodak Alaris (not by EK). 1) EK's confectioning capacity problem has been solved. 2) Harman meanwhile also has got a confectioning capacity problem because of their success...

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    ...want to exploit that by monopoly prices. That is the reason why just one month ago we have seen another significant price increase by Kodak Alaris (the last three price increasing rounds were driven by Alaris, not by EK, they were not driven by production costs). That is the bitter reality...
  11. Agulliver

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    Phoenix certainly generated a lot of excitement. And since it's not cheap, one must conclude that the entrance into the market of any new CN film from a reliable source is something a lot of photographers want. I think it might also have caught EK and KA on the hop, because nobody seemed to know...
  12. F4U

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    R72 Filter With Normal Film?

    ...wonder where the manufacturing difficulty falls on that ladder, to where some film company can't buy those recipes and make it? I doubt Kodak Alaris can or cares. Kodak Park today is probably an area of condominiums. Most buildings long demolished. Is making Infrared so hard hat other...
  13. MattKing

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    The Kodak Alaris related bankruptcy settlement had to be made because the UK pension security legislation gave a super-priority interest over the assets of Kodak Limited in order to secure the very large actuarial estimate of pension obligation exposure of the Kodak Limited pension plan. Those...

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    From that standpoint, it could only benefit Eastman Kodak to continue selling to resellers. Resellers would generally represent a relatively constant purchase volume on a repeating basis, which would (according to all the arguments so far presented) make for a much more consistent product, with...
  15. MattKing

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    ...just over $2.00 CDN per second. Eastman Kodak retained that relatively tiny (in terms of numbers) business, with mostly specialized and knowledgeable users, as their only involvement in distribution and marketing. All the rest was bought and paid richly for by the original owners of Kodak Alaris.
  16. Alan Edward Klein

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    Fine. If they're so good and profitable, let Eastman issue them as photo films that are distributed by Alaris exclusively. No more cheap photo film made from cheaper stocks of movie film.
  17. Lachlan Young

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    There was a major conversion capacity bottleneck. It couldn't be solved in a timely manner at the profit level at the time. Common sense would suggest that raising prices to the point that market demand adjusts to better match your available conversion capacity would have the effect of...

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    I wasn't trying to stop anything, Alan. Currently I don't buy either film or any colour film. I was merely suggesting what Wolfram's argument led me to think about what degree of harm comes to KA or its new buyers if respooling were to continue. Based on Wolfram's posts it just seemed to me that...
  19. Alan Edward Klein

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    British-owned Kodak Alaris was bought out last summer by very smart and aggressive American investors in Los Angeles near Hollywood. I'm sure they're monitoring sales and will adjust marketing accordingly. I think Eastman Kodak's improvement to manufacturing completed in November might have...
  20. Alan Edward Klein

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    Stop trying to cut corners and buy Eastman Kodak photo film distributed by Alaris. Alaris has a legal right to protect their market. If you don't like how they run their business, buy another brand.

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    ...pressure of KA and terminate these film sales: I am convinced it will be counterproductive for both companies in the mid and long term: Kodak Alaris' very agressive price policy, which is exploiting their de-facto monopoly for standard C-41 color negative film, has dramatic negative influence...

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    Matt, following Wolfram's argument, if KA does not consider it to be worth its while to sell one kind of film then doesn't charging EK to sell said film amount to an unfair market restriction on EK. Is such a market restriction legal? If KA has full control over the sale of the full range...
  23. MattKing

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    ...COVID related disruptions. Eastman Kodak was mostly able to continue operations throughout Covid, other than some furloughing of management and research staff, but the disruptions to the world wide shipping and distribution and retail channels apparently played havoc with Kodak Alaris' business.
  24. Agulliver

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    Have you seen the insane prices of Lomography CN800 lately? It's lovely stuff and if I really wanted to pay £30 for a roll of CN film it would be my first choice for high speed colour photography. Portra 800 just doesn't look good for my purposes (photographing gigs mostly in a small club). What...
  25. Alan Edward Klein

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    MAtt do you have access to the contract? Can it be publicly posted?
  26. MattKing

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    It is the other way around. Eastman Kodak will need to make the request. Kodak Alaris paid hundreds of millions of dollars for their rights, as well as effectively taking over millions and millions of dollars worth of Eastman Kodak's obligations, which together allowed Eastman Kodak to emerge...

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    That's what I'm saying. If Alaris is so concerned about Eastman selling a film that Alaris *doesn't want to handle* then Alaris needs to pipe down and let Eastman sell the film to whoever wants to buy it at whatever price Eastman sets for it, or put up the money to market the film themselves.
  28. MattKing

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    Other way around - Kodak Alaris don't care about the tungsten balanced stuff, so that is where people need to get together and try to convince them to provide the same sort of exception to the contract language that Cinestill benefits from due to the remjet omitted nature of the entire master...

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    ...movie studios. Just like if I was to call up and order a roll of Aerocolor IV, there is a minimum order, no matter who I am. Now, if Kodak Alaris is upset that they're missing out on such a tiny segment of sales that it can't be profitable for Eastman Kodak, then Alaris needs to handle sales...
  30. MattKing

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    Reflx Lab says their respooled films could be discontinued

    This is an entirely valid complaint. It is also where there is likely room for a change in because Kodak Alaris is unlikely to have any interest in tungsten balanced emulsions, because the market for tungsten balanced still film would be incredibly tiny. Approach Cinestill about this - they...
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