That is pretty much exactly right. It offered features that the average consumer didn't need and the negative size was too small to satisfy professional users (for the most part). But it would've been pretty cool if they'd done it with 120 film....
At the time I thought APS was too advanced for snap-shot crowd and too limiting for the rest. I still think it was either too much or too little, so the audience it would satisfy simply did not exist to support it.
Back on subject then
I think buyers are more astute today about cameras and wait to either get a deal or exactly what they are looking for. While there are still buyers who just want to get film camera, the number of better educated ones has grown and ironically (perhaps) slowed down buy-anything-film movement. I'd call it saturation of new-to-film ownership has grown.
At the same time, last 3 years have not been gentle to predicting anyones' future, so it's a bit of a chance some need to take on spending on something they don't necessarily need.
But I am not sure sales have actually visibly slowed down.
If Kodak would bring back Kodachrome... then film camera sales would soar beyond all belief!
If Kodak would bring back Kodachrome... then film camera sales would soar beyond all belief!
If Kodak would bring back Kodachrome... then film camera sales would soar beyond all belief!
In that time we will be having a "Kodachrome craze" thread, but I'd rather take substantial reduction in prices & better availability of what we have before Kodachrome is back.
Kodachrome is not E6 developed. It's a special film and process for manufacturing and for developing. I doubt Kodak will ever consider running that line again even assuming they still have the equipment.
once we get good blackk and white film back to 2$ per roll
Kodachrome is not E6 developed. It's a special film and process for manufacturing and for developing. I doubt Kodak will ever consider running that line again even assuming they still have the equipment.
I'd put my money down on them bringing back the name. No question at all. They'll rebrand and E-6 emulsion that is tweaked to look like Kodachrome and call it Kodachrome-E or something. There is way to much history and money tied up in that name for them to sit on it and not use it.
Within 5 years there will be a new film called 'Kodachrome'. Everyone over 50 will kvetch and whine about it and kids will be snapping it up and proclaiming how awesome it while all the fogies tell them not to have fun.
In that case they need to partner up with Lomography, seems like your formula would make a perfect match.
But personally I don't think they will go that far and butcher history.
Cover charges I have mostly seen only in Europe where tipping is not an obligatory 20% regardless of the service.
What I DON'T like is the assumption I should tip for things like pick up to carry out. If all you do is turn the payment terminal my way or hand me an ipad don't expect much if any tip.
That's the thing with sales taxes in the US. They're only added to final sale price which the buyer pays. There are no taxes added at each level of manufacturing and distribution like VATs. Sales taxes vary from state to state and imposed by them. There is no Federal sales tax other than things like excise taxes, gasoline taxes, etc.
In a lot of restaurants, tips are pooled and split among the wait staff, counter staff, cooks, and cleaners - whoever isn't management but is working that shift. So, you pick up an order and the only thing that's different for anyone who works there is the fact that you weren't served at a table. Everything still needed to be prepared and packed. That's the reason for the expectation.
VAT is charged on the increase in value of the transaction as it moves between sellers. SO, there may be VAT paid one raw materials by a manufacturer (that is recouped), but the VAT will be higher on the manufactured item. If there is another middle-man involved who marks the item up (a distributor, perhaps) that additional value is essentially what is being taxed. And so on to the final purchaser, who pays VAT on the total price of the item.
Ok, now that makes sense of it.And in each case, the entity charging the VAT only needs to remit to the government the net VAT for the period in question. That being the difference between what VAT they charged during that period, and the VAT they paid out. So if during the first quarter of 2023 your business was charged $30,000.00 in VAT but during the same quarter you charged your customer $40,000.00 VAT you only need to remit $10,000.00 for that quarter.
For seasonal businesses, it isn't unusual for the government to end up owing VAT to businesses during some parts of the year.
I'd put my money down on them bringing back the name. No question at all. They'll rebrand and E-6 emulsion that is tweaked to look like Kodachrome and call it Kodachrome-E or something. There is way to much history and money tied up in that name for them to sit on it and not use it.
Within 5 years there will be a new film called 'Kodachrome'. Everyone over 50 will kvetch and whine about it and kids will be snapping it up and proclaiming how awesome it while all the fogies tell them not to have fun.
Several years ago I was on a Paul Simon kick (I still love the guy, but at that time I was on a bender, I guess). My daughter, who was about 8 years old at the time, tried to repeat the lyrics to a song I had just listened to (you know where this is going...). And she said "Mama don't take my coated chrome away!"
Think of the children. How will they ever learn proper musical history if Kodachrome doesn't re-enter the lexicon?
I'd put my money down on them bringing back the name. No question at all. They'll rebrand and E-6 emulsion that is tweaked to look like Kodachrome and call it Kodachrome-E or something. There is way to much history and money tied up in that name for them to sit on it and not use it.
Within 5 years there will be a new film called 'Kodachrome'. Everyone over 50 will kvetch and whine about it and kids will be snapping it up and proclaiming how awesome it while all the fogies tell them not to have fun.
Kodachrome II
There are also, or at least have been in the two states I've lived in, local sales taxes. They are generally very similar but not identical so the sales tax can vary a little even from a shop on one side of a street versus the other if the other is in a different county. Here in Georgia we can have a SPLOST - Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax - to finance certain government programs if approved by election referendum by local voters. In Georgia the local sales tax applies to groceries but the sate sales tax does not. So grocery sales tax (food items, anyway) is maybe 2.5% or so, versus 6% or so on everything else. Back in Tennessee where I grew up and lived until I was 40, both state and local sales tax applies to EVERYTHING, including food and labor. I was shocked when I got a bill for car repairs in Georgia, thought they didn't charge me the right tax and mentioned it, they looked at me like I was crazy and said, "no sales tax on labor" and I looked at them in shock and said, "really?" AND in Tennessee that state+local usually nowadays totals over 9% and closer to 10%, where here in Georgia it's about 6% BUT Tennessee has no state income tax and Georgia does. Tennessee also makes up for the lack of income tax with all kinds of other taxes. If you haven't stayed in the state before a hotel bill will shock you the first time. Voters will approve hotel tax more easily because locals don't pay it.
It all just really depends on where you live.
I understand it, and I do tip some, but not the 20-25% I do for table service. I also usually tip the latter in cash. What they do with it after that is their concern.
here are various pages on the internet that say that the print quality of disc film was let down as lots of photofinishers wouldn’t upgrade their enlargers as Kodak wanted them to.
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