That's why I used the example of one master roll per day, 85,000 rolls of film per day, to give people on the forum a sense of what is produced. I don't know if National Geographic used 85,000 rolls in a year, but 15 minutes of coating time was enough for them, and very likely a healthy surplus. As you've stated, today's world-wide demand can be met in one day by Kodak.
but others are made 2 or 3 times weekly and I would cite ECN, ECP, Portra and Ektar.
Most of you seem to be unaware of the new Kodak product introduced recently. They now make an archival color print film for storage of master copies of digital motion pictures. This is their effort to give the digital world a method of backing up images.
PE
Is this film intended for printing analog images, or a digital data pattern (like a QR code)?
Sorry, PE, I see what you are saying. I wonder how often those films are coated, though? Then again, maybe I don't really want to know.
Curiosity question, from what I understand with the underlying technology of films like Portra and Ektar being closely related, is it possible for them to be coated on the same run? I had heard this was done with the Portra NC and VC.
That's the old China you are talking about. Today China is far richer than $15 a day in income. The average price of a home in Shanghai is over $200,000 and there are hundreds of thousands of homes that cost over one million dollars. I'm renting a home (well my company is) that cost over $800,000. There is enormous wealth in Chinese cities now. Shanghai has over 24 million people and many many are extremely wealthy. You would have to go way out into the countryside to find someone living on $15/day.
Just looking at the 招聘 signs on any establishment anywhere that lists the salary right there on the wall and you'll be hard pressed to find a monthly salary higher than ¥3000, which isn't even $15 a day.
Don't know what kind of expat bubble you're living in but.....
I dont live in a bubble, regardless of how condescending you try to be.
You would have to go way out into the countryside to find someone living on $15/day.
Businesses in China post signs that say how much they pay their employees?
I believe I had read here somewhere that Kodak plans for coating about one year ahead of time...I wonder what they have planned for a year from now. Will they still plan as if the sale doesn't go through?....I also saw something somewhere with a quote from Perez that there should be no interruption in product supply- That should be interesting.
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.
Sorry, didn't mean to be so condescending but when someone makes totally untrue statements like this:
I have to refute them.
Do you honestly think that the place where you live, where everyone is racing around in Ferraris and lining up to buy $8 boxes of cereal is truly representative of the majority of Shanghai? 23 million people all live like that? There's many wealthy people here, I will agree with you there. But they don't make up the majority of the people. Not by a long shot. And the rest of China is far poorer than Shanghai. Laobaixing make of the majority of the population, and I think that targeting them with cheaper film products could be a good strategy.
I'm glad you've started shooting slide film. I hope your first roll goes well for you. Maybe someday I will see you out shooting the streets of Shanghai. Are there any good labs over there in Pudong?
Kodak film making plans far into the future. At one time, they scheduled up to 5 years in advance so that they could obtain the lowest prices on Silver and other chemicals.
PE
There was no theft at the EK silver making facility. They did make their own Silver Nitrate from large bars of Silver, and this prevented theft.
PE
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