Harman releases special effects color films

[thinkbrown]

This is great! Hopefully one day, once they have perfected Phoenix, we'll see it in sheet film sizes!

I asked in the comments and Harman said they didn't see why they wouldn't, but no promises for this year

 

[bfilm]

yes i am with you. But over all very positive, maybe my kids will talk about this very strange digital age in their youth ;-)

Wouldn't that be nice. We can hope.

 

[Ian Grant]

I was rather disappointed by Harman's initial colour offerings, and there seemed to be no logical apparent route forward.

However, this new video completely overturns that, and I think most importantly they have been building up a fresh younger team of enthusiastic researchers.

Let's see what the future brings.

Ian

 

[pentaxuser]

I agree, this is a delightful video, not the usual corporate crap, but letting real people tell their story. And great to see that the scientists in R&D are not boring middle-aged males! And I love the not-very-clean lab-coats,

I wonder if the change to boring middle-aged males from more interesting and youthful males is simply a genetic change that the males have no control over?

As far as the not very clean lab coats are concerned this reflects my sentiments over large garage bills. I always regard these as authentic as long as the bill is smeared with a touch of grease. I then know that honest work must have taken place

I think that what Harman is doing is fine, it's just that boring and middle age or not very clean lab coats may not in themselves be much in the way of bad or good signs

pentaxuser

 

[Agulliver]

What a refreshingly open video. And confirms everything we hoped.

Also....as someone who works in laboratories....I never saw a clean lab coat once it had been used a couple of times. Even boil washing the things doesn't render them white again. Par for the course.

 

[isaac7]

What a refreshingly open video. And confirms everything we hoped.

Also....as someone who works in laboratories....I never saw a clean lab coat once it had been used a couple of times. Even boil washing the things doesn't render them white again. Par for the course.

Makes me wonder why white lab coats are still used. Nurses used to wear white and you could bleach the hell out of them to get them back that way. Doubt you’d want to risk bleaching lab coats. I’d think that rubber aprons would be better, just like darkrooms.

 

[gbroadbridge]

I think that what Harman is doing is fine, it's just that boring and middle age or not very clean lab coats may not in themselves be much in the way of bad or good signs

Dunno about the rest of the folks, but they have employed advertising genius

 

[Agulliver]

Makes me wonder why white lab coats are still used. Nurses used to wear white and you could bleach the hell out of them to get them back that way. Doubt you’d want to risk bleaching lab coats. I’d think that rubber aprons would be better, just like darkrooms.

To protect one's regular clothes that we wear underneath. Chemicals can stain, burn, etc....and a white lab coat helps the lab worker know what's been spilled on it.

Rubber would be dangerous due to reactions with certain corrosive chemicals. Concentrated sulphuric acid, for example, will simply dissolve the rubber and burn through the regular clothes and get to the skin. A thick lab coat will prevent this. They're not worn as a fashion statement but as PPE.

 

[cmacd123]

the interesting thing to me was that besides the machine to make cassettes, which we knew about, they have also built entire automated setups to convert and finish both 120 and 35mm. I guess that the old ones they were using were no longer up to the task.