I'm sure Eastman Kodak buy the cassettes (or the individual components), canisters and boxes from 3rd parties.
@miha I have no reason to doubt what my contact told me: that Kodak has aggressively purchased large volumes of 35mm canisters in an effort to limit their own supply problems. I also have no reason to disbelieve that the worldwide manufacturing capacity of such canisters is limited, given the niche market it is.
Still I fail to see why you brought Foma in.
when we hear that SinoPromise is having trouble getting stock, and The Kodak Pension fund who owns Kodak Alaris has had to call for help, one does sometimes get that aching acid indigestion that perhaps alaris is limited in the amount of product that they can commit to order at a time? Eastman Kodak having fought insolvency ,may be requiring payment in advance. something that perhaps is somewhat easier for a diverse chemical, Drug and technology firm like Fuji?
Because that's what my contact did. As said, he's a retailer, one of the prominent ones in my country (probably the most prominent), and as said with direct contact with Foma as well as other parties. I get what information you bring up, but don't see how it would disprove anything my contact said. Stocks can linger anywhere in the supply chain, Foma 200 isn't the fastest running film in the retail channel, temporary supply interruptions may be absorbed in some places but not in others, what's listed on a webshop may not be indicative for what's happening in a manufacturing line, etc. There's any number of reasons why the information you glean from personal experience and websites is not necessarily at odds with what I said. Moreover, there's no reason why my contact would lie, or be lied to, about this. It's just in nobody's interest. Towards me, he's always been perfectly transparent about what he knows (and doesn't know) in terms of what's happening in the trade.
Thanks for the heads up! I honestly don't care what the "real" film is inside as it's the only color film we may get at $6/roll (if that's accurate).
@miha I don't see the point in going over the same arguments again.
Sorry for asking, what is SOL?
Me neither. Let's rather find our what this Kodak-Fujifilm alliance is all about.
Absolutely a typo. More likely $15.99. A 3 pack is listed as $39.99
Me neither. Let's rather find our what this Kodak-Fujifilm alliance is all about.
If you have a copy of "making Kodak Film" http://www.makingkodakfilm.com/ (the author posts here from time to time as "Laser") their are pictures of the Lithographed steel used to make Kodak Cassettes. Kodak no doubt still makes all parts of those in House. Kpdak uses Tape to attach the film to the spool, and so the finishing line presumably has to assemble the Cassettes during the winding operation. (Unlike Ilford and Foma where the film is appched by a hole in the film caught by a hook molded into the spool, and so those cassettes can be fully formed fully formed before the film is loaded.)@miha I have no reason to doubt what my contact told me: that Kodak has aggressively purchased large volumes of 35mm canisters in an effort to limit their own supply problems.
Kodak no doubt still makes all parts of those in House. Kpdak uses Tape to attach the film to the spool, and so the finishing line presumably has to assemble the Cassettes during the winding operation. (Unlike Ilford and Foma where the film is appched by a hole in the film caught by a hook molded into the spool, and so those cassettes can be fully formed fully formed before the film is loaded.)
yes, their were a couple of articles that they had troble getting the non tin plated sheet steel to make them for a while. seems that they now once again have the black painted sheet to stamp out the end caps.
too bad their is not a way to ask @laser
I do think, this is not being an Kodak UltraMax 400 clone.
B&H are listing a new ‘fujifilm 400‘ product - made in USA, as per fujifilm 200, with Superia 400 Xtra listed on their site as discontinued, although over here theres fresh product still in stock in a few places. At the same time Superia 400 Xtra is back on sale in the Japan market. (Previously discontinued in favour of Premium 400)
So this might be short term solution to ongoing supply chain issues, to help backfill supply in the US market or longer term tie up with kodak. Either way its presumably ultramax in the can?
…I do think, this is not being an Kodak UltraMax 400 clone.
There is no new C200. That film is discountinued (for the time being - at least). The Kodak made Fujifilm is differentiated by the lack of “C”.But the newly introduced Fujifilm C200 is simply the old Kodak Gold 200 into disguise. The old Fujifilm C200 was being different.
Nobody is saying that. The new Fujifilm linked above likely is.
There is no new C200. That film is discountinued (for the time being - at least). The Kodak made Fujifilm is differentiated by the lack of “C”.
FWIW, I think it was last year that the Kodak cassette caps changed from black to unpainted metal, because of a temporary disruption of the supply from the supplier they use for those caps.
I take from that that they are third party sourced now.
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