I agree 200%!
I have been saying the same since film started going way, and I mean it. If digital was ever able to give me exactly what I can get now (NOT something "better", NOT something "newer", NOT something "more advanced", NOT something "more convenient", NOT something "cheaper", NOT something "easier", but EXACTLY what I get with fim........), I would have no problem with not using film. The reason I use film is because it is superior in almost every way for the pictures I want to print.
Color film will be gone long before "my" digital camera comes along.
Film is not a means to the end of "looking like film"... Making film-based photographs is an end in itself for me, not some kind of elaborate photoshop plugin. If I can't put Tri-X in the goddamn thing, I don't want it.
Well, when Kodak cancelled many products a few months ago, they did 3 things.
1. For Kodachrome, they called in a group of prominent analog photographers and APUG members for a tour of Kodak Park and then they gave them the information and permission to release it on a given date with details.
2. For the other products they sent a list to dealers that was free for dissemination.
3. They published all of this on their web site.
The result was a series of negative comments about Kodak and the way they handled it. Now, we have Fuji doing a far worse job and I guess, to be fair, my comment would have to be more negative about this situation than the Kodak cancellations!
Of course, it could be like the Konica or Agfa situations where in the case of Konica they were there one day and gone the next (so to speak) or Agfa where no one knows yet what is going on......(kinda - almost - maybe depending on whether you are in Leverkusen, Morstel or Wolfen? IDK)
PE
I can confirm what others have said or alluded to here. There are 43 individual Fuji products being discontinued with 16 suggested replacements. The replacements seem to be confined to sheet film where 20 sheet boxes replace 10 sheet boxes. This change takes effect this month for most items.
PE
In any of these "43 products" is there a major surprise in addition to what has already been mentioned here (specifically any 35mm chrome films gone for good in the US market)?
You did it again!
You were obviously not around when Fuji advertized that their new film was "from the people who brought you Pearl Harbor". This raised quite a furor in the US to say the least! Fuji does goof and on a major level.
PE
You were obviously not around when Fuji advertized that their new film was "from the people who brought you Pearl Harbor".
PE
Stephen;
In line with APUGs policies, I will publish no private data sent to me in PMs or E-Mails. Sorry.
But, I can say, no surprises in view of what we have seen here.
I might add that a Fuji rep told me that this confusion was all caused by a sticky floor mat. No, wait, that was sticky brake software --- hmmm, wonder what has caused this. Gee, none of the Japanese seem to have their stories straight lately, right?
PE
Ron,
That was not directed towards you nor anyone else in particular. My apologies if you or anyone else took it that way. I had a rather poor conversation with people back home, about how "bad" Japan, as well as the Japanese must be........My impressions of the leadership of many of these companies as well as the governmental leaders here is not so good (to be polite), but the average Joe (Hiroshi) on the street is a different.
My apologies.
Gary
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