The best slides shows ever done preceded E6 by decades. Three large panchromatic glass plates, each in a it's own carbon-arc projector, with its respective tricolor glass filter in front, all aligned. The shows would have gone slow, and the operator would probably have used tongs to keep his fingers from being burned, but I've had old-timers descibe the images as more vibrant than anything hence.
The best slides shows ever done preceded E6 by decades. Three large panchromatic glass plates, each in a it's own carbon-arc projector, with its respective tricolor glass filter in front, all aligned.
Carbon arc might be nice on a very cold day; but even then you might burn the house down, or else go blind accidentally looking at the filament. More realistically, you could use long lenses on three ordinary slide projectors to minimize parallax on the overlapping images. Pin-registered MF mounts exist. Now you just need to find some friends who will put down their Smartphones long enough to actually look.
See my new post.I hope you do.
Yeah. That's a great idea. Re-issue films on nitro base. It's about time a Darwin Award gets added to the Academy Awards. A nice shiny Oscar would look nice sitting beside the urn containing the projectionist's ashes.
Why not starting home projecting by means of carbon-arch projector anyway?
A wellsuited and exciting Apug endeavour...
The trouble is getting the carbons. They don't make analog carbons these days and the digital ones just aren't the same.
Let's just be very blunt and to the point with one thing here. Skip the hysteria over Kodak and concentrate on what Fujifilm is doing.
In E6, Fujifilm is the major player. Kodak doesn't even rate a mention on the radar. Ektachrome is still seen as a non-event by many traditional dyed-in-the-wool consumers of E6 products.
Mid-last year there were murmurings through two distributors that Fuji was working on an exit from analogue products in 2020. I am keeping my ear to the ground with my own distributor. If they do exit, that will cause a collapse of E6 availability, in particular the labs and the chemicals they use. For some time -- a few years now, a trend has been seen for labs to scale down processing availability or cease processing of E6 completely. For E6 to be worthwhile, a large amount of the product must be run through the machinery to keep it going; the process is filthy. The inescapable fact is E6 is diminishing continuously in take-up and processing availability. We should collectively not be holding our breath for Kodak as any sort of saviour for the market, but getting cracking with whatever other E6 materials are available to keep the machines turning. If we don't, we have only ourselves to blame, not the film manufacturers.
Do it.
Well, I'm going to buy a 5 pack of Velvia 50 and chip in my part to keep E6 alive. I found a lab that processes this film for a reasonable price. I havent shot slide film for 4 or 5 years. Maybe i'll take to it this time.
signs indicate that Fujifilm's exit is very much fait accompli if what my Japanese friends tell me is true.
Acros 4x5 is available in Europe. I'm thinking if I should buy a box for my pinhole. Or perhaps hamster quite a few boxes in case I will ever buy a large format camera. By that time it will be all gone, and I'm not going to pay the prices on the auction site. But my fridge/freezer capacity is pretty much maxed out as it is. And I'm not considering myself a hoarder. I have lots of different film and it is there because I might want to shoot a specific one tomorrow.That would be quite sad. Their marketing leaves something to be desired, as Acros in sheets is only available in Japan to the best of my knowledge.
Do as you'd like but all signs indicate that Fujifilm's exit is very much fait accompli if what my Japanese friends tell me is true.
What I felt about Velvia50 is : that is one of the best E6 ever. In 120 it is still avaible but the future seams to be a discontinuation in direction of remaining Velvia100 and Provia100F.(in120)Is Fuji continuing Velvia 50 RVP in 120?
Thanks Jim for that great information - so we might see what will happen. Today Fuji is on the way to higher pricing on E6 Films again. The discontinuation is not stopped. But it goes around 5packs in120!Check this out:
https://www.fujifilmholdings.com/en...ts/2016/pack/pdf_TOP/Review-of-Operations.pdf
Fuji is turning profits now. They're diversifying away from film (getting into the healthcare market), but they're still turning a profit in film. in 2013 they were operating at a loss. In 2016 they pulled in 32.2 billion Yen in profit. Their film division sales was UP 3.9% and they made almost 150 billion Yen more off of film than digital (249.9 vs 103.4). Their camera lines, both digital and film, only make up 14% of their business.
It's old news from 2016, but it does show that Fuji would be dumb to exit the film market completely. They've already got a lot invested into it, and it's making them money. They're a smart business, and you don't walk away from easy profit just because it's not the main source of your business anymore.
Here's last year's financial statement:
https://www.fujifilmholdings.com/en/pdf/investors/integrated_report/ff_ir_2017_all.pdf
On page 17, they talk about their commitment to continuing film. It basically says the company is growing and becoming less reliant on film sales, which is smart given the market. However, they seem to feel a social need to provide film and are willing to accept that role.
So I don't think Fuji is going to give up E6. That's their main social contribution to film. I think they're just looking for ways to make it a more stable and sound business model for them. They cut out Acros and others to make sure they films that don't turn a profit don't drag down the ones that do. That being said, I wouldn't be surprised to see them whittle down their production runs and offerings. So it might turn into a scenario where they only produce the film a few times a year. If they do that, it won't be unusual to see expired film for sale from major distributors and retailers in between runs.
Before Fuji discontinues E6 film, I bet they'll exit the digital camera market. They have a smaller market share, there's less profitability for them in that sector, and less potential for future growth. That's probably why they're getting into the digital medium format, as that market has fewer players, and they may see a better potential for profitability.
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