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It's official, Kodak is selling its film business.

SkipA said:
Hmmmm. As we know from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything.
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No. 42 is also the oldest rule in the book according to the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland "anyone more than a mile high must leave the court immediately".


Steve.
 
Well, the machine in building 38 can process rolls that are 1 to 2 miles long. If you unroll one of those and stand them on their end (not an easy thing to do), I can see how rule 42 would also apply.
 
@PE - Honestly, I couldn't say if it looks like God chasing that Kitten... For all I know God could look like a Gelatinous blob... Never met God, so how could I say?
 
"Well, the machine in building 38 can process rolls that are 1 to 2 miles long. If you unroll one of those and stand them on their end (not an easy thing to do), I can see how rule 42 would also apply. "

We have a Building #9 here in Toronto on Kodak Heights, but it's abandoned, like the rest of Kodak Heights...
All the equipment there is long destroyed, scrapped, and or sold...
 
Building 9 at Kodak Park was destroyed several years ago.

And, I don't think God would look ugly.

PE
 
Not such a good idea. The Chinese sometimes have enough cash that the whole point is to buy out
a company but then actually shut it down - one less competitor - then attach the brand logo to a complete bait-and-switch junk line of products. Of course, US companies have done the same kind
of thing in the past, or in many cases, have bought up patents simply to table them.
 
Is there really no chance that a potential buyer could start producing phased out films like the E6 lines or infrared?
 
No chance? No, I'd say the chance isn't zero. It's never zero. Kodachrome COULD be made again, but then flaming monkeys COULD fly out...

The chance of E6 or infrared is probably better than for Kodachrome but still almost certainly very low.
 
p.s. I'm afraid of monkeys, apes and peoples who act like them. Now I'll have nightmares. Gee thanks Roger.
 
I close my eyes when typing or reading forum posts too!
 
Aaahh. That explains a lot!
 
I can understand the difficulty of making Kodachrome again as even if they did, the network of labs that could process it is how many? 2? But with their E6 and infrared lines, there's still lots of places all over the world that can do it. It's disappointing that slide film has now been put into only one company's hands for survival.

Even with the quality issues, I personally hope that a Chinese producer could buy out Kodak's stuff and start making some competitively priced E6. I think there's lots of people out there who would love to shoot it, but when it costs an entire day's salary to buy and shoot one roll, it's too much of a luxury.
 
Grain;

Here is a scenario.

Engineer X is retired. He coated EIR. Engineer Y was laid off. He coated E6. Company A made the IR dye and wants $100,000 up front for the dye, and company B made 3 or more critical chemicals for E6. It will cost about $1M to restart under these conditions.

The ROI is $10,000 based on sales at the end of production.

How do you proceed?

PE
 
I, for one, no offense intended, do not want to see a Chinese company take up the Kodak name.
Look, you guys, no intended attack against the Chinese people, but North America is giving up their economic power to the Chinese. Bell Canada has outsourced their Call Centres to India.. And much of the manufacturing these days is happening in places like China, and Singapore, or Thailand..

China does make some lovely products... But think about this.. What is going to happen when they become an Economic Super Power like the EU and NA.. seriously, what will happen?

North American Jobs will be lost, hundreds of thousands of them. Our economy will become completely crippled... The stress will put diplomatic tensions on a lot of countries... and when all else fails, we could see a massive thrust of anxiety toward the Chinese nation, or other nations like that.

I'm not saying that may happen, but *IS* happening..
We keep outsourcing to places like China, and we're losing our jobs here at home! Why?
So large corporations, like Kodak, can make that extra $0.50 on the dollar..

It has to end! Not trying to make a political statement, but I do not want to see another company, like Kodak, end up in the hands of a foreign company! That is just not right.. we have to keep it where it started.. It doesn't matter if a Canadian or USA company takes it up, but not a foreign company..

my 2 cents worth.. do with it as you will, and please, don't think it's an attack against any Chinese person/people.. it isn't.. We just cannot keep giving away our manufacturing companies!
 



E6 Shooters really need to rally around behind FUJIFILM and make sure that their ROI is large enough to continue making transparency film.
 
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