He may have been using a circular slide rule.
Incidentally I wonder if that disc that Dr Strangelove is using as a calculator albeit with some difficulty due to his hand not always doing what it is toldwas in fact a Johnson exposure meter device that Peter Sellers borrowed from a cameraman on the set?
Even the last few months, and Ilford prices jump. Saw bulk Delta 400 around $105-115 earlier this year. Thought to pick one up, now it's $135-140.. Please don't chase Kodak..
I hope Ilford will not follow Kodak's path in raising prices too much or else it will begin to lose clients and sales will suffer.
At that price, a 36 exposure roll of Delta 400 is approximately $6.50, so it's still a significant savings. The price of a finished roll of Delta 400 is $12.50 - the financial advantage of buying a bulk roll is obvious.
Buy film when it is on sale and store it in the freezer. Thaw it out and make sure it is warm before opening. When you buy up film you are keeping it from the hoarders!
I don't know, Wouldnt that make you the hoarder?
At that price, a 36 exposure roll of Delta 400 is approximately $6.50, so it's still a significant savings. The price of a finished roll of Delta 400 is $12.50 - the financial advantage of buying a bulk roll is obvious.
Whoa!! Last 400 bulk roll I bought was $105.
Both Kodak and Ilford have been hit hard by a number of material issues. The relative unavailability and high prices for the cellulose triacetate substrate material that they both need to source for most/all of their existing product lines is a major one.
In Kodak's case, that's yet another negative consequence of a bad management decision. Namely, the shutting down of in-house acetate film base manufacturing.
Both Kodak and Ilford have been hit hard by a number of material issues. The relative unavailability and high prices for the cellulose triacetate substrate material that they both need to source for most/all of their existing product lines is a major one.
In Kodak's case, that's yet another negative consequence of a bad management decision. Namely, the shutting down of in-house acetate film base manufacturing.
I'd suggest that there are two types of unfortunate decisions that were made in those times. Almost all of which were made in the context of a desperate need to reduce costs.
The decisions made on issues like this were reasonably based on all the indications and trends extant - all indications were that the film market was going to essentially go away. It was reasonable at that time to expect that there would be no need to have in-house production.
A better crystal ball might have been the only way to avoid those decisions.
The other decisions made - selling off businesses that sold product outside of their core business to third parties, and attempting to start new, non-photographic businesses with hoped for similar margins to their old - those were bad decisions.
One thing though - unlike so many others, at least they are still around and producing (growing amounts) of product. Many others aren't. Of course, it took a bankruptcy remedy to make that possible.
They shoud then coat their emulsion on a PET base then...
Then why Ilford Ortho or the recent Foma Ortho or Ferrania Orto are all still coated on triacetate base?Anything new or re-introduced will likely be designed with PET base as part of the design criteria.
Here's a thought. I wonder if the idea of using a salt mine formed after some exec or indeed engineer from Kodak saw Dr Strangelove. If the deepest mine-shafts were the potential saviour of mankind and the 1963 U.S. GDP could be re-established in about 100 years following the triggering of the Doomsday machine and the Earth's devastation then is there any reason to doubt the power of deep mines?
Then why Ilford Ortho or the recent Foma Ortho or Ferrania Orto are all still coated on triacetate base?
It was probably too expensive to do the engineering for PET.
The light piping issues might be more problematic as well for an ortho film - I don't know.
A head of cauliflower is $6 now. All the base inputs that ilford needs have increased substantially.
Thanks Matt So is Kodak only in the process of transferring all its Gold and Portra 400 film's base to PET because of its volumes but not doing so with Tri-X because the volume sold does not meet the return on investment calculations
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