You're probably right, but I must say that with complex machines that combine multiple operations in a single step, it's not always obvious to figure-out how things work. A bit like when The Everyday Astronaut was visiting a space museum and trying to figure out how all the pipes on a rocket engine were connected. With such machines, we don't have much of a point of reference to go by unless we study them and work on them.I don’t think Destin is puzzled.
No more film can fit inside a 135 cassette so that is why 36 exposures was selected as the amount of good exposures one could expect.
They used to advertise as 24+3 which really was just a 24 shot roll plus the lead.
The 24+3 that I remember developing had frame numbers up to 27 plus the leader.
Labs then advertised that D&P for 24+3 was the same price as 24 exp.
Again IIRC, back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, 35mm single and multi packs were offered with 24+3 and not just confined to single use cameras.
I don’t think Destin is puzzled. I think he (correctly) sees himself as a proxy for the viewer and asks lots of detailed questions, even basic ones, to ensure that those watching can actually understand what they’re seeing. Experts, unless they’re trained as educators or just naturally talented, are often pretty bad at explaining the things they know well because they subconsciously assume knowledge on the part of the learner that isn’t there. Dustin’s approach to his videos fixes that.
Well at least the good news according to the video is that they are ramping up production so that says the market is growing again.I was on a tour in 2001, part of a conference Kodak hosted. Mind-blowing for sheer scale of the operation, but what I recall was the sense that everyone there was working in a dying industry and their jobs would be going away. The engineers were the most impressive--they seemed focused on keeping the machinery working and even inventing improved versions of it in spite of the doom-and-gloom predictions. What a pleasure it is to see the operation, however diminished it might be, still functioning and to such high standards.
I think the disposable cameras did have similar labelled film, or perhaps they are just doing the whole retro thing with their branding?In parts of the video you see them making Kodacolor 400 branded film cassettes. I'm curious where film with this branding is used/sold. I don't think it's available standalone (anymore), right? Is it used in disposable cameras? Is it the same emulsion as Gold 400/UltraMax?
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I think the disposable cameras did have similar labelled film, or perhaps they are just doing the whole retro thing with their branding?
I shot a test with Kodak single use camera (SCU) film and Lomo 800 in January this year ( a project with Henning Serger) and the Kodak SUC film cassette was white with black lettering. The Film was 800 speed 39 exp and the neg marking were GT 800-5 and the film expiry date was 04/2024.
Also SUC films have a different core spool with teeth.
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The Kodak 400 shown is very similar to the ColorPlus 200 cassette.
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My understanding was that those film cassettes with the black lines, like the ColorPlus, were very much like the old VR film's cassette markings.
I have also heard that ColorPlus is a variation based on VR.
It can be very confusing sometimes.
I still dont know why it would be branded as Kodacolor on the film cartridge, but not on the box which reads something completley different?
I havent seen the Kodacolor branding marketed on anything since the 90's, then everything switched to Kodak Gold.
I agree. I found the host's approach super helpful to explore/understand basic things that us mere mortals without engineering knowledge can't easily understand and appreciate.I don’t think Destin is puzzled. I think he (correctly) sees himself as a proxy for the viewer and asks lots of detailed questions, even basic ones, to ensure that those watching can actually understand what they’re seeing. Experts, unless they’re trained as educators or just naturally talented, are often pretty bad at explaining the things they know well because they subconsciously assume knowledge on the part of the learner that isn’t there. Dustin’s approach to his videos fixes that.
Perhaps they still have a bunch of the Kodacolor cassettes - which can be used up in the disposable cameras, because customers normally don't see them.
Quite possible, which means they must have had a huge amount of stock printed going way back into the 90s
In the 1990s, Eastman Kodak were manufacturing upwards of 70 master stock rolls a day of Kodacolor…each and every day – enough to make nearly 3.4 million spools each day.
I agree, and if you enjoyed these videos, it's worth checking out some of (the host) Destin's other videos. His sense of wonder and curiosity toward things many people never think about matches my own in many ways, and beyond learning from his stuff, I always get that sense of joy from him.It’s appropriate that the host pauses at the end to ask how this series makes you feel.
Watching this particular series makes me want to go knock on Kodak's door and ask for a job. (I'm an engineer, with some minor experience in process automation, and fairly deep image/color processing expertise, albeit digital, so it's not altogether crazy.)
I agree, and if you enjoyed these videos, it's worth checking out some of (the host) Destin's other videos. His sense of wonder and curiosity toward things many people never think about matches my own in many ways, and beyond learning from his stuff, I always get that sense of joy from him.
Watching this particular series makes me want to go knock on Kodak's door and ask for a job. (I'm an engineer, with some minor experience in process automation, and fairly deep image/color processing expertise, albeit digital, so it's not altogether crazy.)
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