Jealous?

[Photo Engineer]

This is one of Mark and Nick's paper cabinets at GEH. I thought I might post it.

Are you jealous?

PE

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

No.

Just sad...

Ken

 

[Hexavalent]

OMG!!!!


KB and Medalist! Pure heaven!!!

 

[Randalcav]

It looks like a collection of 3000 total sheets of photographic paper and a walk down memory lane!

 

[frank]

Jealousy is a useless, destructive emotion. So, no.

 

[Doc W]

Yes, I am!

 

[Sirius Glass]

No, i have a much smaller stash but not with the WOW factor. Someone always has more.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Polymax!!

 

[mooseontheloose]

Never had a chance to print anything Kodak, so no...

Sometimes its better not knowing what's been lost.

 

[Anon Ymous]

Never had a chance to print anything Kodak, so no...

Sometimes its better not knowing what's been lost.

That makes two of us.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

I like Kodak's HC-110 and ... whats about it...
I have same amount of Agfa, which I like.

 

[Roger Cole]

Big huge boxes of Ektalure!

There's been nothing quite like it since, and not likely to be with the removal of cadmium from papers.

 

[railwayman3]

Not jealous, I don't do that. Just angry when a "great American company" commits suicide as Kodak has done.

The only Kodak product I've seen recently is a card of 12 AA "Kodak" batteries (plus "four extra free") in my local shop for £1 (about $1.50). Made under license in China.

(At least the same shop still has piles of 35mm Agfacolor neg (Fuji made, 2018 expiry) for £1 a film.....they used to have Kodak color neg, but "sorry, haven't been able to get that for months".). And they even have new "holiday packs" of 5 Fuji films in the store across the road, to catch the Christmas trade.

So don't gloat, GEH folk.

 

[Roger Cole]

I see plenty of Kodak products. I use Kodak color negative film and T-Max developer and KRST and.. but I fondly remember Kodak papers too.

 

[Ricardo Miranda]

No.

The only Kodak product I've seen recently is a card of 12 AA "Kodak" batteries (plus "four extra free") in my local shop for £1 (about $1.50). Made under license in China.

Well, I have seen those and more Koda products recently: I was at Silverprint yesterday.
And recently I saw a lady in a lab with 2 rolls of Portra.

 

[railwayman3]

No.



Well, I have seen those and more Koda products recently: I was at Silverprint yesterday.
And recently I saw a lady in a lab with 2 rolls of Portra.

Fair enough....but if the only Kodak products that you and I have seen recently are a few cheap batteries, 2 rolls of Portra, and some items in a specialist analog photographers' shop, I think that just confirms what's happened to a great company. With a heritage like Kodak had, they should still be the first and trusted name for a variety of consumer products....think Canon, Sony, Panasonic, Epson, HP, etc., etc., etc. To the average, particularly younger, customer, Kodak is now nothing special, just another minor brand.

 

[Kevin Caulfield]

Also to the non-average older customer.

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[Roger Cole]

I don't "see" Kodak stuff in stores (shops for the folks across the pond) except for some single use cameras. But neither do I see Fuji except for a few rolls of consumer 35mm C41. But I see Kodak listed at Freestyle and B&H and I see it arrive in boxes at my doorstep.

 

[removed account4]

haven't seen kodabromide in eons,
all that yellow, looks nice !

 

[Wayne]

Elite is the only one I ever used much of. I wasn't a VC user back in those days. I've always wanted to try K-bromide. Not jealous but a bit nostalgic. My dad used to have stacks of yellow boxes.

 

[Doc W]

I have wondered why Kodak doesn't allow someone else to make these papers. I guess it is because they don't want to let go of proprietary information, but at least it would give Kodak some revenue via licensing and give us back Kodak papers.

PE, any comment?

 

[fotch]

The good old days...

 

[Gerald C Koch]

I really miss all the Kodak papers. When I started out in photography they were the only papers available. As other papers became available I tried them but always went back to Kodak.

 

[semi-ambivalent]

Impressed by your use of "one of".

Saddened by what Kodak squandered, even with market history taken into account.

s-a

PS - I'd take a box of Kodabromide...

 

[Lachlan Young]

What was the Polylure paper - a VC Ektalure? Also, what did Medalist offer that Kodabromide didn't?

Were there any Kodak warmer-tone papers that were not reliant on significant amounts of Cd, Hg & Pb salts?