How about getting someone from Fuji, too?....
Threads like this cause me to read up once again on the D-200's specs! I keep reminding myself "my Nikkor glass is good, my Nikkor glass is good...."
George.
While I appreciate morse code, (learned it when I was about 11 and promptly forgot it), I don't appreciate how you plan to make acceptable 35mm hand coated film. I would be happy to give you free access to my lab for a full week for you to demonstrate it to me. I will, in return, show you why you are wrong.
The bottom line is that hand coated 35mm with any degree of quality, with a home darkroom is virtually impossible.
Best of luck.
PE
Dr. Souichi Kubo was head of one of the photographic departments at Chiba. His wife (The former Miss Arai) is still teaching there, but he retired the last I had heard. This information dates from May 2006. I had a long conversation with visiting educators from Chiba at the ICIS meeting in Rochester.
I have met him and many of his students here in the US when he was assigned here for 1 year by the Japanese government. His base of operations was in Rochester as he studied US education in photographic science.
PE
Must be worth exploring - let's see what Ilford's response is initially.
Thank you very much for the info. Now I know where to search! I think there is more than one "Chiba" university (or a college that we also call the same), so I was so confused before.
So, you've got quite many future cadidates to be your apprentices to learn from you. Or they have already mastered the skills that you offer and taken off, I don't know. But aren't they interested in APUG? Do they come visit here at all to contribute their skills and knowledge?
Get more manufacturers in touch with the APUG membership. Ilford have engaged and this has brought mutual benfits. Fuji has had some limited contact. Several equipment manufacturers are members. What about the rest?
Do you have a contact at a photo-manufacturing company? Drop them a line and invite them to APUG.
Do you have a manufacturer whose products you would hate to see vanish? Drop them a line, tell them how much you value their products. Invite them here to talk to their customer base.
The other day, in a similar thread PE made a point about people saying, but not doing. Now he starts ANOTHER thread wherein all the same people start saying all the same things about doing what they are very much unlikely to do!
I mean really; cooking up a batch of 120 in your kitchen using the carefully saved paper backs from past rolls? Shooting at speeds of ISO 5?
If we get to that state I think that APUG will have about six members remaining!
I skipped the middle 13 pages, but pardon me if this has been mentioned before, either on this thread or some other place...but is there any list of available products (film, paper, etc) from the many companies still at work w/a film product line.
I think the overall philosophy of the country, Japan, may keep Fuji producing film longer than Kodak. There is a strong tradition to preserve "traditional" methods of doing things. That is just my impression. Move forward but don't eliminate the past.
I think the overall philosophy of the country, Japan, may keep Fuji producing film longer than Kodak. There is a strong tradition to preserve "traditional" methods of doing things. That is just my impression. Move forward but don't eliminate the past.
My impresssion is that when Fuji dies in the Japanese market, that's the end of everything for the people in Japan. Don't get blinded by some flashy new products by Fuji. That is not much of a good sign, but rather a posing, because the number of their production is so limited, and so is the sales. In reality, the Japanese amateur photo market SEEMS shrinking a lot faster than any other ones as far as I know (based on the trends and changes in the photo schools, camera clubs, etc). And some pros here that some amateurs have admired for longer than the last quarter of the century are now the leading figures of the new digital products.
So, I just don't know if there's any "philosophy" to protect and/or sustain one particular company in any business.
Someone on this thread has mentioned about the use of motion-picture films for still films, and quite frankly I belive there is a fair use in the U.S.movie industry, and that may not go down to zero. But the Japanese movie industry is not the same. We've got a lot of HD and other video-format movies today, and almost no feature films that come out in threaters use any film any more. This industry has moved pretty quickly because I believe it never had too much money to spend on any art and luxury (unless your name was Kurosawa). It's a pretty small and cheap industry, and you can sort of tell by looking at what most movie crews eat at lunch with their tiny lunch boxes...
So, unless Fuji finds its home somewhere else, I don't know what will happen, but that doesn't mean they are going as fast or slow as most people think. I'm just giving you my thoughts here to get a better perspetive.
Meanwhile it seems, it really seems that Ilford COULD have a better chance selling more in this market if the pricing and the selection of its products WERE more user-friendly.
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