When you think about it, this is the after-times of the "digital apocalypse". About the end of the last century, almost overnight digital photogrphy wiped out the conventional suppliers. We lost everything. Kodachrome, Infrared, and just about all the manufacturers. Then the 2008 crash...
I thought KodakAlaris had a contract with Eastman in perpetuity. Hearing that it ends in 2028 is new to me. It also raises the question why an outside company (Kingswood Capitol) would buy Alaris subsequently in Aug 2024. What if Eastman decides they want another distributor? That would put...
KodakAlaris is the international primary distributor for all Eastman Kodak branded still film products.
They have a contract that gives them the exclusive rights to buy the entire production of such products from the manufacturer, Eastman Kodak.
They have a number of different international...
Does KodakAlaris do anything other than marketing and distribution? Do they put the film into the canisters? I read somewhere (some random forum post or blog) that Eastman Kodak can make giant rolls of film but has limited capacity to put that film into canisters. I don't have any reliable...
I expect that the 2023 re-negotiation of the agreement with KodakAlaris - which was in no small part made necessary due to the huge disruptions caused by the COVID pandemic - was for a five year term, with fairly detailed provisions relating to renewal rights after 2028.
If KodakAlaris...
Thank you, the tech sheet indicates 9:45 min with the 1:1 dilution, very near to the 10:15 that i used. That tech sheet has very an various good data,k specially that Sunny system and filter factors! Thanks!
Neither Eastman Kodak nor KodakAlaris have any business capacity to provide film developing resources to anyone.
All of the people and infrastructure for that have gone long ago - in most cases 40 years ago, when the market for home movies on film dried up.
Eastman Kodak still provides some of...
FWIW, here is the published datasheet for Tri-X film, courtesy of KodakAlaris, the film's distributor. The data in it originated from the time when Eastman Kodak and its international subsidiaries were all part of a single whole...
...Considering that a single movie uses kilometers of film, this means Kodak still has demand for its products.
Kodak has a contract with KodakAlaris to produce photographic films until 2028. They promise to continue production if there's demand.
Personally, I'm not worried about Kodak films...
...asking about what they are allowed to do in principle... If they decided they wanted to start a new business venture and compete with KodakAlaris in the sale and marketing of sill film, can they do that?
To make sure I understand. Kodak Gold is still manufactured in Rochester NY by Eastman...
...I would confirm that it is a good idea to check any that you intend to use.
For a while, the former Eastman Kodak employees who became KodakAlaris employees subsequently became Sino Promise employees managing the same distribution system, so for a while they were responsive to the problems...
I wouldn’t touch any Kodak branded chemistry made during the Sino Promise era. I had to throw out many packages of various developers from that period. Proceed with caution, I say.
Can you share the label information - product of KodakAlaris, place of manufacture, etc.?
2017 would still be KodakAlaris. If it was made in Germany, it would probably be okay.
There was a period of time when the photo chemical business was in complete disruption and KodakAlaris was...
...Kodak and all of its international subsidiaries had left the film processing business prior to the bankruptcy, so there was nothing for KodakAlaris to "inherit".
Actually, from very early on, Kodak preferred to concentrate on the business of supporting labs run by others, rather than running...
Does Kodak in Rochester do it?. Even though Eastman Kodak Co is a defunct bankrupt shadow of it's former self, perhaps the buyer, being Alaris I believe, still offers this service. If so, I believe I'd be inclined to send it to them.
It is important to understand that the Z-131 you linked to hasn't been updated since KodakAlaris was responsible for Kodak photo-chemicals, and that most recent update probably didn't do much to change anything other than add references to KodakAlaris - which references have recently now been...
CineStill put a teaser on Instagram recently, with the picture of a plus symbol, which mentions something "years in the making" is being announced for release. AHU has been eight years in the making, so it very well could be AHU V3 film coming up.
You say it like people are in for a big surprise. Cinestill has been selling tungsten ECN-2 ISO500 film that people regularly shoot @ISO800at in daylight and process in C-41 for 10 years. I'm pretty sure that the fact that this film now has AHU will not make it worse in such conditions.
Anyway...
Fair enough (although we won’t agree the price of silver is the whole story when it comes to paper pricing). I expressed a negative opinion and that is or should be allowed.
We're in a world where Fuji has virtually stopped making film and KodakAlaris has been bought by VC. I'm really happy we have a second/third supplier of color films (depending on if you count InovisCoat at the moment), and I've made great photographs on both Phoenix and Kentmere 200.
The...
Eastman Kodak owns the name.
KodakAlaris enjoys the benefit of a license to use the name, with respect to a wide variety of products and marketing and distribution of those products.
As do the makers and/or sellers, of a myriad of other products, with this being a typical example of same:
For clarity, KodakAlaris hasn't owned that business for some time. After a detour into ownership by the now defunct Sino Promise Holdings, the ownership of that business and manufacture of Kodak branded chemicals is now in the hands of a USA based corporation, Photo Systems (of Unicolor fame)...
FWIW, Keith Canham is actually the only source for a number of products and sizes, because his business is the only source authorized by KodakAlaris to organize and place orders for them.
Sadly I recently had an email from Film Photography Project to the effect that this all means they have to discontinue their respooled Vision 3-derived products for still cameras.
The thing is....in my case at least....it won't make me purchase more proper Kodak-Alaris products because they...
Who knows exactly, other than the parties involved. I expect it varies depending on markets, geography, local distributors and a variety of other factors.
It varied by market back when Kodak was in its heyday - what applied to the USA which differed for Canada which differed for the UK, or...
Does Eastman ship their film to Alaris for re-shipment? Or does Eastman dropship directly to Alaris' local distributors? Now that Alaris was bought by a California investment company, are there any changes planned, like buying Eastman's film division? I believe Alaris USA is right next to...
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