Fotokemika ...

[RattyMouse]

Actually they sell 100,000s of rolls a year. If you do not think I am correct just call them and ask.

So their slide film business was 0.1% of film sales? Is this really credible?

 

[MattKing]

So their slide film business was 0.1% of film sales? Is this really credible?

I would expect that Freestyle isn't known for its slide film. So it doesn't necessarily attract the attention of slide film shooters, who themselves are a small niche of the filmn shooters out there.

Slide film has become an incredibly narrow niche in the market.

 

[Helinophoto]

I would believe that they sell a helluva lot more Fuji E6 than Kodak at Freestyle, Provia and Velvia has always been pretty popular.

 

[DREW WILEY]

Fuji has been the dominant player in chrome film for a long time now - that's why Kodak finally ceded
that spectrum of the business to them. And digital has disproportionately eroded the demand for
small camera films versus sheet e-6 film, where a far bigger investment is required to even roughly
approximate equal reproduction quality, that is, unless you're tethered to a scanning back in a studio. Sad, because E100G was in certain respects the pinnacle of Kodak's own chrome progress.
Nothing new, really, however. Favorite films and papers have come and gone as long as I've been
around. One adapts, simply because there is no option.

 

[Roger Cole]

I have no doubt Fuji slide film sold better than Kodak, and B&H sold more than Freestyle. But I was still shocked at the ten rolls per month figure they mentioned.

 

[ath]

So, how are colour slide film sales connected to Fotokemika? Time to open another thread I suggest...

 

[AgX]

Well, the link is that Fotokemika once coated slide films. Those were the days...

 

[Roger Cole]

So, how are colour slide film sales connected to Fotokemika? Time to open another thread I suggest...

In the general sense of the declining market for film, Fotokimeka's demise lead to discussion of Kodak which lead to discussion of Kodak abandoning slide film already and my comment about how little of it was reportedly sold at one major North American supplier. Do try to keep up.

Slavish devotion to the original topic of a thread I have always considered a prime example of Emerson's hobgoblin.

 

[RattyMouse]

One adapts, simply because there is no option.

Such true words.

 

[darkroom_rookie]

Well, the link is that Fotokemika once coated slide films. Those were the days...

Wasn't it CT18-process emulsion from Wolfen?

 

[AgX]

No, not from Wolfen. Furthermore there are no reports about any cooperation between Fotokemika and Orwo.

 

[railwayman3]

Wasn't it CT18-process emulsion from Wolfen?

I used some "Efkecolor Spektar 100" 35mm color negative some years ago. I have one of the rainbow-colored cartons in front of me and it says, in tiny letters, "Made in Cooperation with Japanese Company". Process was "C-41 or FC-60", expiry July 1995. IIRC, the film looked a lot like a Konica product?

Interestingly, every carton has an individual tiny sticky label altering "Fotokemika, Zagreb-Yugoslavia" to "Fotokemika, Zagreb-Croatia". A little bit of history and politics coming in there.

 

[Shalom]

See ebay seller xkaes for "Al Spoil film slitter -- cut any film down to any size"

Same seller as listed in post #423. I have bought from him and it is fine.

I also bought one, but with a twist: I told him to make it wide enough to slit 105mm microfiche stock down to 122 size.

He didn't blink an eye, just told me it would take a bit longer to have it made up. Didn't even charge me extra.

Still trying to figure out who in heck Al Spoil was, though.