Unlikely - I don't think that Photosys have that manufacturing capability, and they have already indicated somewhere that it is the version they have been contract manufacturing for first KodakAlaris and then Sino Promise since 2019.
...Color Negative films are not new at all, they go back to 2007-2008 with Kodak still having strong manufacturing capabilities and before KodakAlaris creation. Nowadays I don't think Kodak will even consider anything that it is not within the current film portfolio or very similar for a...
I can confirm that Sino Promise had officially shut down production at their factory in Wuxi, China and I bought a 5L bottle of TMAX-RS they had in stock.
...holder for the license to make and sell Kodak branded photo chemicals will be supplying T-Max developer again. They were actually, beginning in 2019, the ones doing the contract manufacturing of most of the Kodak black and white photo chemicals for KodakAlaris (initially) and then Sino Promise.
It does seem like CineStill will be in charge of distribution. When I tried to make an account on the page I linked, I was sent a verification code the moment I typed my email address in. Looking at the order history on my account page, I can see the records of purchases I made from the...
...is committed to supporting the photography community through customer support, community engagement, education, distinctive brand awareness and delivering consistent availability throughout the market."
In short - Cinestill will be doing distribution - akin to what KodakAlaris does for Kodak...
I know that B&H can not ship Kodak HC-110 to me herein Canada, But will gladly ship multiple Bottles of Legacy Pro L110, which is made by PSI, who we have recently found out has been Making the Non-syrup HC110 for alaris/sino promise. I metion multiple bottles in case there was a volume...
Personally this is a confused mess. Marketing won't change the name because there is zero brand recognition outside the film shooter's niche and even inside, many buy on price and their own experience - not some virtue made abundantly clear by marketing. Rebranded films by other people come and...
FWIW, the reason that Eastman Kodak and KodakAlaris limit their reciprocity data to shorter than pinhole times is because the related industry does not manufacture a sensitometer that reliably and consistently emits and measures the extremely low level of light that would allow them to base...
...when its maker is happy to call it Ilford film, why would we call it anything else?
Does anyone walk into a shop and ask for a roll of KodakAlaris Tri-X? (Rhetorical question: I don't think we do. I certainly don't: I don't even use Tri-X. I use HP5, and I ask for 'a roll of HP5', without...
I did notice that at least one product page mentions a data sheet, where the link goes to KodakAlaris. the "about US" does confirm that they are proud of their former life as "Unicolor" (as frankly they should be.) And at the same time indicate they are the source of many of the CineStill...
...separate retiree benefit programs in place, and current Eastman Kodak employees are members of those.
As I understand it, current KodakAlaris employees, as well as employees of their international subsidiaries, have separate, unrelated plans that apply to them.
The pension entitlements...
...ask for assistance in meeting its obligations to the memebers of the plan. The Major asset when that plan was set up was All the Stock of KodakAlaris. It is quite posible that to Pension Protection Fund may now have control of that asset and would rather realize the monetary value of that...
...is no special handling of "Pro" films - just different marketing and distribution.
And the different distribution relates mostly to packaging - think of film on cards - and which local distributors are the target market for KodakAlaris.
You will recall that KodakAlaris doesn't sell to...
...now only refers to the distribution and marketing segment that films are in.
And it has been that way for decades.
From the KodakAlaris website:
The listing is for all different available sizes of Gold 200.
Here is the 2023 datasheet, which has been updated to reflect the fact that they...
Kodak doesn't have any meaningful competition in colour film segment. The pricing of their BW is higher than competition because they have no incentive to sell more BW film. They would need to sacrifice colour film numbers to satisfy higher BW demand at lower prices, but there is clearly no...
I've posted before that I believe Eastman Kodak can raise prices to Alaris to raise their profits at the expense of Alaris. Alaris has nowhere else to source Kodak film. On the other hand, even Eastman realizes they can only go so far without killing the goose. I've researched and still don't...
...article. But it seems clear that the pensioners will be getting less than they use too. The fund is £1.5bn short. I assume markup and profits of KodakAlaris effect what they get so they're an incentive to raise film prices. Other film manufacturers don't have this pension issue to contend...
...the substantial costs related to distribution more?
Eastman Kodak, who have institutional investors demanding return on investment, or KodakAlaris, who has a quasi-government owner demanding return on investment.
Someone is going to have to spend that money, and they are going to demand that...
I recall hearing that the Pension plan applied to be bailed out a while ago. so the Pension Board may be the ones in Control of Alaris these days. One might suspect that is why the chemical business was sold off...
But there are apparently two levels of distribution for Kodak film. Alaris and the other distributors. So, Alaris adds one more level of markup that other film manufacturers don't do raising the price of Kodak film higher at the retail level. Plus, distributors for non-Kodak film don't have...
They read identical to me - adjusting for the fact that they use different units on the horizontal axis.
I note as well that the older, KodakAlaris datasheet refers to Daylight exposure, while the Kodak Motion Picture Datasheet refers to tungsten illumination filtered to 5500K - which may or...
No - other film companies just have to worry about shareholder profits.
Wait - that is what concerns KodakAlaris as well!
Eastman Kodak have almost no marketing and distribution costs in relation to still film.
Marketing and distribution costs form a significant part of the costs of every film...
Eastman Kodak the manufacturer mark-up their film to Alaris who marks it to the distributors who mark it up to the retailers who mark it up to the final buyers. There are too many middlemen, too many markups, more than other film companies. I believe Alaris is the main culprit as they raise...
...In the last years we've had growth rates in certain market segments of 30-40% p.a.. That has meanwhile slowed down, especially due to KodakAlaris' pricing policy.
Whether we can exploit the full market potential in the future is dependent on the behaviour of the market players: Reasonable...
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