Kentmere products have a good presence in the US.
They were also sold here under other than their brand name. Luminos comes to mind.
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12. Two electron sensitization applied to B&W, which will take several years and millions to complete.
13. ISO 25,000 speed direct positive thermal film.
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4. High stability dyes (in early stages, a new chelating agent was needed) Dye stability surpassed anything seen in any product today except pigment type dyes. It may have surpassed them.
I have always been surprised (well, disappointed) that Kodak has not leveraged its experience in what everybody else these days calls nanotechnology.
It is serving a purpose as seen in AgX's post indicating other companies interest in Kodak technology if Kodak cannot use it. This may be of value to everyone, so in this regard my OP may have been of some benefit all around.
Well, considering the remarks here today, I can just add that I cannot discuss any of these in detail in any way. And, if other companies are interested in them they should contact Kodak.
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Apparently, no one is knocking on Kodak's door.
These things I post are only the most superficial of product ideas or even trade trialed items. I could add a lot more.
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On the plus side...I did read an article today that predicted digital camera sales have just about peaked and could tail off rather dramatically after 2010. They cited super-saturation of markets and imminent loss of customer excitement as the factors.
Adelvo that is a pretty cool post.
This makes a lot of sense. The wave of initial adoption for d****** point and shoots must be tailing off, as must the wave of upgrades for early adopters that bought in when image resolutions were much lower. Resolutions are no longer advancing by leaps and bounds in either the consumer or pro products. Dropping price points for higher resolutions can spur a certain amount of upgrading but not really fuel booming sales.
I think I have a fair idea of what will come during the next slowdown, but I won't go there. If I'm right - Canon, Nikon, Olympus, and Pentax won't like it.
You think there's a technological innovation being held in reserve for that market-moment? And that it doesn't serve the interests of companies that come at this from the photographic side of things? It's not the "convergence" snake oil...so I'll guess that who it will make happy is the likes of Sony, Panasonic, Sanyo, Samsung, Toshiba, etc.
Am I warm?
Agreed, we've seen this before.
Personal Computers in the 80s were a status symbol. They aren't now because most households have been through several cycles of purchasing them and the only people excited over them these days can be, justifiably, labeled as dorks.
1. Direct reversal, 3 step "R" paper like Radiance.
2. 3000 speed in-camera instant product. (blocked by Polaroid suit) This was close to release.
3. Peel apart Polaroid like film. (blocked by Polaroid suit) This was close to release.
4. High stability dyes (in early stages, a new chelating agent was needed) Dye stability surpassed anything seen in any product today except pigment type dyes. It may have surpassed them.
5. Colorless prints that bloomed into full color under UV.
6. 3D color prints. These were spectacular and needed no glasses to view. Kodak used a sample of this on the Annual report cover about 20 years ago.
7. Instant color heat processed film (blocked by Polaroid suit and digital)
8. Copper based photographic systems
9. Polymeric gelatin and coupler substitutes (they take a LOT more work) Improves grain dramatically.
10. An ISO 400 Kodachrome, finished in 1988 but rejected by customers during trade trial. Used T-Grains. (In trade trial in 1988)
11. T-Grain Kodachrome in other speeds (ditto above).
12. Two electron sensitization applied to B&W, which will take several years and millions to complete.
13. ISO 25,000 speed direct positive thermal film.
14. Pollution free film and paper process. (too expensive at the time)
15. High activity organic fixing agents with low pollution.
16. Mixed packet color with a single layer producing all colors of todays color papers. This had many problems yet to be solved, but was killed by slide coating and curtain coating. It would still be a big advance.
I have alluded to these in a number of posts. Here are some of them all in one list.
Enjoy. There are probably hundreds more that I could mention but won't, and hundreds more I don't know about.
PE
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