I'm not sure if this has been said yet but Kodak is now offering 400' & 1000' reels of (cine) 35mm Ektachrome at what works out to be a significant discount compared to the price of 36 exposure rolls. Will be interesting to see if the major players (FPP and Photo Warehouse) will cut it down into 100' rolls... if I shot E6 with any frequency I would certainly consider cutting one down myself.
The later, though its not a reduction per se but the sudden change from unavailable to available. To the best of my knowledge Kodak hasn't sold cine rolls of 35mm ektachrome until the sometime in the last month or so. It was only available in 16mm and smaller formats.To you intend to say that cutting down cine film rolls to 135/36 forms a significant saving (which is no news at all), or that Kodak has reduced prices of their Ektachrome 35mm cine film rolls?
I suspect that that was a deliberate decision, just to avaoid folks buying the movie stock and repurposing for still use. the use of 35mm Ektachrome to shoot an entire season of a Television series may have been the catalyst to change that plan.The later, though its not a reduction per se but the sudden change from unavailable to available. To the best of my knowledge Kodak hasn't sold cine rolls of 35mm ektachrome until the sometime in the last month or so. It was only available in 16mm and smaller formats.
Not with E6 Ektachrome transparency films - just with the ECN-2 camera negative films.You’ll have to deal with remjet with cine film.
It may also be that they had to work to make sure that lab services would be available for 400 and 1000 foot lengths.
I wonder why? They should have, and I thought they did market it especially for cine film 8 and 16mm to start with.The interest in all the Ektachrome stocks surprised them.
It - Ektachrome in both cine and still formats - sold faster and at higher volumes than their initial projections indicated.I wonder why? They should have, and I thought they did market it especially for cine film 8 and 16mm to start with.
When you are not aiming at printing the film, reversal with its low grain and superb resolution and micro contrast makes all kinds of sense.
Especially for scenes where the dynamics are controllable and lighting is not a bottleneck.
This being part of the reason I hypothesized about film availability perhaps being dependent on the cine processing industry being ready for it.the cine machine only is a requirement that the film be processed by continuous processor, to prevent density variations. note that they specically metion that Other E-6 Materials can be processed in the same chemicals.
This being part of the reason I hypothesized about film availability perhaps being dependent on the cine processing industry being ready for it.
While I expect some of the labs still doing still E6 have continued to use lines suitable for cine film, most of the E6 lines remaining are probably set up for lower volumes.
Does it still? It’s overpriced compared toIt - Ektachrome in both cine and still formats - sold faster and at higher volumes than their initial projections indicated.
IndieWire has an article about the use of 35mm Ektrachrome for Season 2 of HBO's Euphoria, especially this excerpt:I suspect that that was a deliberate decision, just to avaoid folks buying the movie stock and repurposing for still use. the use of 35mm Ektachrome to shoot an entire season of a Television series may have been the catalyst to change that plan.
Rév reached out to Kodak and asked if they could manufacture 35mm Ektachrome again; once the “Euphoria” team assured the company that they would shoot enough film to make it worth Kodak’s while, Kodak agreed to bring the format back and Rev shot around 50 percent of Season 2 on the stock. (The other half was shot on the more universally used 500T Vision 3).
The OP already explained so in post#5 and I confirmedd that it only appered with 2022 catalog.BTW, the Availability in 35mm is NEW, they have a "sell sheet" for ektachrome 100D at https://www.kodak.com/content/products-brochures/Film/EKTACHROME-100D-sell-sheet-EN.pdf which only refers to 7294 and NOT 5294 (5294 being the 35mm version)
Agree.any CINE lab with an E-6 line would be a continuous processor.
Agree.
What I was trying to indicate is that I'm not sure how many cine labs were left who still had an E-6 line available, before Ektachrome was brought back.
Some that had the capacity may have had to do some work to get the line running again.
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