Kodak flash cubes were used in 126 cameras. I still have one camera and one lonely cube here. Yes, they were quite good. Four flashes per cube, pop out and put in another. Every one worked.
PE
PE
Kodak flash cubes were used in 126 cameras. I still have one camera and one lonely cube here. Yes, they were quite good. Four flashes per cube, pop out and put in another. Every one worked.
PE
According to this USA Today article, the motion picture film division might be up for sale as well:
"Kodak made a point of saying that businesses, such as consumer inkjet printing, motion picture and television film, and specialty chemicals, are outside of the core. Ken Luskin, president of California wealth management firm Intrinsic Value Asset Management, said the company seems to be indicating that it will also sell those businesses."
http://www.usatoday.com/money/indus...k-sells-still-photography-business/57289302/1
I also got an email from Audrey this evening that states Kodak film and pro paper will be represented at the Kodak booth at Photokina in Germany next month. At that time, they will launch the updated Kodak Professional Film website and brochures. It is expected to take until early to mid next year to finalize the sale of the still film unit.
The key thing to remember here is that Kodak is marketing both Kodak still film and the Kodak still film customer to the potential buyers, so we are all literally in the spotlight together at the moment.
So my feeling is lets not blow the chance we have all been talking about for years to get Kodak film in the hands of an eager new owner that could very well want to keep the products in our hands for longer than we thought possible.
Keep buying it, shooting it and for god's sake, keep the vibe as positive as you can, I am going to.
The key thing to remember here is that Kodak is marketing both Kodak still film and the Kodak still film customer to the potential buyers, so we are all literally in the spotlight together at the moment.
So my feeling is lets not blow the chance we have all been talking about for years to get Kodak film in the hands of an eager new owner that could very well want to keep the products in our hands for longer than we thought possible.
Keep buying it, shooting it and for god's sake, keep the vibe as positive as you can, I am going to.
Thomas Bertilsson;1386042 I also agree that perhaps it's best for Kodak film to have someone owning it that is as passionate about the product as the people who work in the Kodak film division said:That's so true! Another group to maintain Kodak color products, just as Harman has done so successfully for Ilford B&W.
... a new owner that doesn't need to feed 50k employees, could be very flexible and make sure there's always room for profit in the end, no matter how small batches they need in 5, 10, 15, 20.... etc. years...
As I understand it, the smaller, research coating machines that were designed for small batches have been 'decommissioned'.
note: Emphasis addedWhilst not trivial, it's not rocket science either. Coating machines are not exclusive to film production and could be built to the correct scale.
I suspect that coating is a minor issue compared with consistent manufacture of the emulsion.
This thread is filled with so romanticism of Kodak, irrational opinions, and irrational love for a particular medium that I wonder what happened to their alleged love for photographic pictures, if they even ever had that love. Reading this thread is laughable, and one wonders if the same person wrote all these postings in some illicit weird desire to make good comedy.
Well, it worked!
PE,
Do you know how the remaining Kodak coating machine compares in size with those at Inoviscoat and at China Lucky which are apparently running now mainly on non silver halide coating?
Is there a market for non silver halide coating in the US?
Thanks.
If you replace Kodak with oil paint and photographic pictures with just pictures, what changes? Is it still good comedy?
Sorry, I own DSLR and have used many digital cameras with good results, but it just isn't the same thing. It isn't the same workflow and the result is different. What is so irrational about it? The medium can be one part of the art. The feeling it delivers.
Sure, you can use some flashy plugin to turn your digital photos to "oil paintings". Still some people want to buy real oil paintings. Why? Why does that matter to some people? Are they also just irrational, incapable of seeing the picture behind the medium?
If you replace Kodak with oil paint and photographic pictures with just pictures, what changes? Is it still good comedy?
Sorry, I own DSLR and have used many digital cameras with good results, but it just isn't the same thing. It isn't the same workflow and the result is different. What is so irrational about it? The medium can be one part of the art. The feeling it delivers.
Sure, you can use some flashy plugin to turn your digital photos to "oil paintings". Still some people want to buy real oil paintings. Why? Why does that matter to some people? Are they also just irrational, incapable of seeing the picture behind the medium?
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