Because of the absolutely massive amounts of 35mm and 120 film they've been putting out and the gigantic increase in these volumes since the start of this century?
My own suspicion scratching together all the crumbs of information on the floor of the forums and Fujis own publications and advertising around Acros my own suspicion circles around the sensitization of the material which maybe the only thing really special on the material produced by Ilford for Fuji. But knowing I also do nothing at all.It could indeed be anything spanning the entire gamut that you mention.
I have my suspicions, though...
More likely due to the fact that Fuji has a limited schedule for devoting resources to using that equipment, and the demand patterns for Acros differ significantly from when Fuji wants to have their machines in operation.
I.e. something like Fuji only wants to run the finishing line twice a year, and that doesn't work well with the Acros customer base.
More likely due to the fact that Fuji has a limited schedule for devoting resources to using that equipment, and the demand patterns for Acros differ significantly from when Fuji wants to have their machines in operation.
I.e. something like Fuji only wants to run the finishing line twice a year, and that doesn't work well with the Acros customer base.
I think you missed sarcasm in @koraks' response.
You probably didn't read what I wrote. To make it clear, I'm not saying Fuji doesn't have a relationship with Harman.
I did.
I simply am saying that the market demands for E6 and B&W are so fundamentally different, that in a world where Fuji only makes film at certain times during the year, it makes sense that Fuji consider different solutions for "confectioning" the relatively tiny amount of B&W film made under their name.
It occurs to me as well that Harman may be better set up for confectioning B&W than colour positive film.
but outsourced to china
Big news from Fuji
Reddit post with sources in comments
Seems like C200 and C400 (Superia?) will be produced again, but outsourced to china
If the quality turns out to be right, it will be best of both worlds between instax and fuji color negative film
That is very very interesting! The partner brand shown in the banner, Yes!Star seems to be in the Xray film and material market. Whether it is a full coating or finishing plant is still to be known.That's great news.
It's like we are living in a fairy tale. New film cameras, Fuji (re)starting colour negative production... What's next?
They have had these "Fujigold" 200-400 at least to keep a foothold in the market with the name on the canisters, though sad that they practically left all color negative. But together with the sentiment I have been writing about, and that a few share, that Fuji's film manufacturing and distributing in the last years is quite puzzling. They must have seen and felt that the film market is more optimistic.There was *nothing* wrong with C200 so a similar 400ISO film would be welcome. We know that Fuji will insist on good quality control, and Chinese manufacturing is fine when good QC is implemented.
I always wondered if Fuji turning to Kodak for contract coating was a stop gap until Fuji could resume production. Wishing the Chinese factory every success.
Maybe C400 is different to Superia due to the lack of a 4th layer?
4th layer was removed from Fuji Superia X-tra 400 a decade or so ago...
Unless, of course, this China plant is just converting film from Kodak. That would make sense since Kodak has excess coating capacities and bottleneck in finishing.
It's like we are living in a fairy tale. New film cameras, Fuji (re)starting colour negative production... What's next?
At this point I will ask, again, what is your source of information for this huge discrepancy between Fuji's BW and E-6 users. How come that BW users are so much more demanding than E-6? I remember there were nice sales of short dated Acros II and people went for it like crazy, but now only absolutely freshly converted (which tells you absolutely nothing of how old the master roll was) will do?
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