The museum is an independent organization. Ektachrome is made by Kodak Alaris a British firm that wound up with Kodak consumer film division including Portra, T-max, Ektar and Ektachrome when Kodak couldn;t pay the union's pensions that it owed their employees in Great Britain. Kodak itself sold off most of its patents and films and everything else except movie production film used by Hollywood. That and a few side products are all that's left. This Kodak, from the original Kodak, is on its last legs. It's really a shame.Gee, I wonder who manufactured the brand new Ektachrome films that I just received? Could it be Eastman Kodak?
And the George Eastman museum is a vibrant and active museum.
Eastman Kodak makes the film and Kodak Alaris markets it.Ektachrome is made by Kodak Alaris a British firm that wound up with Kodak consumer film division including Portra, T-max, Ektar and Ektachrome when Kodak couldn;t pay the union's pensions that it owed their employees in Great Britain.
Sorry Alan, but you have it turned around.The museum is an independent organization. Ektachrome is made by Kodak Alaris a British firm that wound up with Kodak consumer film division including Portra, T-max, Ektar and Ektachrome when Kodak couldn;t pay the union's pensions that it owed their employees in Great Britain. Kodak itself sold off most of its patents and films and everything else except movie production film used by Hollywood. That and a few side products are all that's left. This Kodak, from the original Kodak, is on its last legs. It's really a shame.
China makes my wife's iPhone and Apple markets it and owns its rights.Eastman Kodak makes the film and Kodak Alaris markets it.
China makes my wife's iPhone and Apple markets it and owns its rights.
China makes your Nikon and Nikon markets it and owns its rights.
So Kodak is the manufacturer for Alaris film products.
The point is Kodak doesn;t own the film anymore than China owns Apple iPhones. Alaris markets it and owns the film rights. I suppose at some point if Kodak tanks, ALaris my get ownership of the film manufacturing plants. I don;t know the contract or bankruptcy court's decision in this matter. But I would think that ALaris is protected somehow from Kodak doubling their prices to manufacture, for example, or stopping production entirely. Alaris must be protected somehow or their lawyers didn't do their job.
I'm not too amazed at how we have some BH fanboys here that stand up for BH's pitiful excuse for a camera museum.
I mean, 90% of the photogs on these forums take snapshot quality photos. So it is no wonder that we have so many that think BH's 2 shelves of cameras is a wonderful museum. It goes hand in hand.
I'm not too amazed at how we have some BH fanboys here that stand up for BH's pitiful excuse for a camera museum.
I mean, 90% of the photogs on these forums take snapshot quality photos. So it is no wonder that we have so many that think BH's 2 shelves of cameras is a wonderful museum. It goes hand in hand.
To correct my original post, change "made" to "owned". I guess that's where I confused people. Sorry about that.The museum is an independent organization. Ektachrome is made by Kodak Alaris a British firm that wound up with Kodak consumer film division including Portra, T-max, Ektar and Ektachrome when Kodak couldn;t pay the union's pensions that it owed their employees in Great Britain. Kodak itself sold off most of its patents and films and everything else except movie production film used by Hollywood. That and a few side products are all that's left. This Kodak, from the original Kodak, is on its last legs. It's really a shame.
They don't sell their museum pieces. Says it right there at the museum.
I'm not too amazed at how we have some BH fanboys here that stand up for BH's pitiful excuse for a camera museum.
I mean, 90% of the photogs on these forums take snapshot quality photos. So it is no wonder that we have so many that think BH's 2 shelves of cameras is a wonderful museum. It goes hand in hand.
You start a thread saying you went for a "shoot" inside a store (which is amateur speak for walking around with a camera), then you rip people here for taking "snapshots". Funny though Daniel, i couldn't find you in MoMA's database, or any other museums I checked. No galleries either. Maybe you are just a frustrated snapshot artist yourself? Yeah, that is probably why you have such a chip on your shoulder.
Who cares if BH's museum stinks. They sell things, they aren't a cultural institution.
This thread is comical.
I'm not too amazed at how we have some BH fanboys here that stand up for BH's pitiful excuse for a camera museum.
I mean, 90% of the photogs on these forums take snapshot quality photos. So it is no wonder that we have so many that think BH's 2 shelves of cameras is a wonderful museum. It goes hand in hand.
I see no B&H fanboys here and no one has said that the two shelves of cameras is a wonderful museum. Everyone is shaking their heads in dismay as to why it is a bee in your bonnet.I'm not too amazed at how we have some BH fanboys here that stand up for BH's pitiful excuse for a camera museum.
I mean, 90% of the photogs on these forums take snapshot quality photos. So it is no wonder that we have so many that think BH's 2 shelves of cameras is a wonderful museum. It goes hand in hand.
I'm not too amazed at how we have some BH fanboys here that stand up for BH's pitiful excuse for a camera museum.
I mean, 90% of the photogs on these forums take snapshot quality photos. So it is no wonder that we have so many that think BH's 2 shelves of cameras is a wonderful museum. It goes hand in hand.
no clue what your photo upload has to do with "snapshot quality" photographs orythe OP 's claim's that the " camera museum" at b+h is pitiful ?I agree. I would never post any photographs because when I did, it was copied 200 times in less than 24 hours on this website. So yes most of the posted photographs are snapshot quality.
For many years, Pentax had a camera museum conveniently located in Tokyo. ...
I saw it in Tokyo in 1993. It was marvelous. This thread has some views of the museum after it was reconstituted at the factory:
http://filmwasters.com/forum/index.php?topic=1849.0
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For many years, Pentax had a camera museum conveniently located in Tokyo. Eventually it was moved out to a Pentax factory several hours away, and around 2009 it was closed, I believe in connection with the factory itself being shut down.
I saw it in Tokyo in 1993. It was marvelous. This thread has some views of the museum after it was reconstituted at the factory:
http://filmwasters.com/forum/index.php?topic=1849.0
The Tokyo incarnation of the museum had a similar look-and-feel, so those pictures give a good sense of what I saw on my visit.
Agfa had an own photo museum too. Vanished into stock decades ago. Meanwhile ownership has changed too.For many years, Pentax had a camera museum conveniently located in Tokyo. Eventually it was moved out to a Pentax factory several hours away, and around 2009 it was closed, I believe in connection with the factory itself being shut down.
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