"Home video" is an antique concept. Your plumber and your accountant use the cell phones for everything, just ask them. "Home video" is an Ozzie and Harriet leftover.
Are you sure he was still your friend?
That would be ironic. It was Velvia that killed Kodachrome when pros switched over to it when it originally came out. I can't imagine Kodak would take the chance of Velvia now killing their new Ektachrome or Ektar.
Yes! I was so mad. Occasional purple skies and greenish clouds had me pretty fed up, and after I saw crud embedded in the emulsion that was it for Kodalux. I used an independent lab and got much better results.
Kodak management sure had a talent for doing stupid things.
That merely reflected the fact that without home movies, the volumes couldn't support the operation of the previous infrastructure.
It was 1983-4 when Kodak Canada started shrinking the Kodachrome labs. What date did Kodalux come into being?
Fully understood. I was only meaning I'd not used Ektachrome since the 1960's. After using back to back usage of Ektachrome & Provia I too prefer the E-100 to the Provia. My first impression reminded me a bit of the old Astia look. Provia always seemed a bit too blue/cyan for my tastes.
cel phones being nothing but a gleam in some visionaries' minds.
By the 1990s, even in Eastman Kodak's eyes Kodachrome was a legacy product, maintained only because of the loyalty of the fan base.
In most of the world, during most of the critical parts of its life, Kodachrome was sold with Kodak processing included. The film and processing package was looked at as a single product, with attention being paid to the profitability of that package as a whole.
While working retail I sold thousand of rolls of 135-36 processing included Kodachrome at prices between $12 and $14 CDN. People could buy that film from my workplace at the beginning of the day and, if they so desired, quickly shoot a roll, get it back to us before the afternoon pickup and, in many cases, come and pick up the processed slides the next day after the delivery - all for that $12 to $14 CDN cost. The huge volumes that made that possible were what made Kodachrome possible. During the busiest seasons, the processing machine(s) that developed that film, which were the size of a small bus, ran 24 hours a day - operators staffed three 8 hour shifts.
Yes I remember the thrill after a trip taking the Kodachrome to be processed in North Vancouver. Drive over the second narrows, drop off the film, then do it again the next day to pick up the slides. Gosh where did the years go?
They've even started calling the bridge by its proper name since then
(Ironworkers' Memorial bridge at the Second Narrows).
When you dropped that film off, you were just feet from my father's office, and you were dealing with his staff.
Ektachrome and digital photography killed off Kodachrome.
Speak of the devil, I went out today, looking for whatever caught my eye, a nice drive during the autumn golden hours, but no joy, and packing out my kit, I happened to take a look at my always cold kept films and sitting in one bag of five roll cartons of 120, an unopened box of Velvia 50, 2019 date.
I knew I had some loose rolls amongst my ready to go bags of films, 120 and 135-36, but after following this post, I was genuinely surprised and happy to find this option just waiting for the day I need it.
For me now, there is only the question of loading what I have in an A12 back or an A16 4x4cm back, making it 'last' that much more?
Any chance Kodak will take this Fuji film and make new stock of it under the Yellow Lable?
How many do you have to swap?
That would be ironic. It was Velvia that killed Kodachrome when pros switched over to it when it originally came out. I can't imagine Kodak would take the chance of Velvia now killing their new Ektachrome or Ektar.
We should have sent that visionary to another planet the day they uttered the words "cell phone".
mshchem - I grew up within walking distance of a mountain town so small that the general store was no bigger than the average motorhome. The only phone in town was a little mahogany box on the wall with a crank handle, which reached a single switchboard operator way off in another county, with a massive uninhabited canyon in between. Twice a week the owner of that store would drive his old pickup way downhill to the city to get his groceries and goods. But even he stocked Kodachrome, and brought back your slides on the next run. He also carried something equivalent to Kodak Gold for sake of the box Brownies in those hills, and would faithfully bring back the snapshots. At my request, he even stocked old style pre-E6 Agfachrome, which came with a pre-paid mailer. The film was stocked on the same shelf as all the shotgun and rifle ammo.
As a percentage of average income, it's still cheaper than Ektachrome was in the mid 1970s (the documentary evidence is not hard to find). Do you want sustainable production of a specialty product or not? The whiny entitlement of aged hobbyists about what were effectively massively subsidised 'halo' product lines post-1990-ish isn't going to cut it.
mshchem - I grew up within walking distance of a mountain town so small that the general store was no bigger than the average motorhome. The only phone in town was a little mahogany box on the wall with a crank handle, which reached a single switchboard operator way off in another county, with a massive uninhabited canyon in between. Twice a week the owner of that store would drive his old pickup way downhill to the city to get his groceries and goods. But even he stocked Kodachrome, and brought back your slides on the next run. He also carried something equivalent to Kodak Gold for sake of the box Brownies in those hills, and would faithfully bring back the snapshots. At my request, he even stocked old style pre-E6 Agfachrome, which came with a pre-paid mailer. The film was stocked on the same shelf as all the shotgun and rifle ammo.
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