Don't count on it. Kodachrome revivalist posts/threads will continue here as long as PHOTRIO exists. After that, they'll show up elsewhere....Hopefully it's last word on the subject for a while...
Apparently this concludes their investigation of "what it would take to bring it back" from last year. Hopefully it's the last word on the subject for a while.
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Don't count on it. Kodachrome revivalist posts/threads will continue here as long as PHOTRIO exists. After that, they'll show up elsewhere.
It never ends
Along with bigfoot, chemtrails, crop circles, the Second Coming,Don't count on it. Kodachrome revivalist posts/threads will continue here as long as PHOTRIO exists. After that, they'll show up elsewhere.
They're more interested in bringing back things like P3200, apparently. There were better films than that to bring back which would mean instant market share for Kodak.
Kodak's business decisions are a mystery wrapped in an enigma, contained in a riddle, for sure.
But yes, I guarantee you that Kodak never gave even 10% of a single thought to bringing back Kodachrome. They wouldn't bring it back if the year 1957 came and bit them in the face.
P3200 was a delight when it came out in the '80s, I used it with a prewar Contax, f:2 Sonnar, photgraphing bands in very dark bars, far better grain than TriX and two stops faster before the push. I think the veiling flare of the wide open Sonnar is what brought the shadows up... it was a great match, and now I have another Contax and P3200 ordered.Which films would be better to bring back than P3200?
Which currently offered films would P3200 be likely to cannibalize out of existing Kodak sales, rather than going after sales currently handled by competitors?
P3200 was a delight when it came out in the '80s, I used it with a prewar Contax, f:2 Sonnar, photgraphing bands in very dark bars, far better grain than TriX and two stops faster before the push. I think the veiling flare of the wide open Sonnar is what brought the shadows up... it was a great match, and now I have another Contax and P3200 ordered.
I've yet to try the Ilford, I'm a bit ashamed to say.Yes Ilford Delta 3200 has been quietly doing exactly that in dark bars with pre-wars cameras or at least that's what I do with it.
Yes Ilford Delta 3200 has been quietly doing exactly that in dark bars with pre-wars cameras or at least that's what I do with it.
I've yet to try the Ilford, I'm a bit ashamed to say.
Perhaps I should get some D3200 and see, I've yet to use an Ilford film I did not like.
When P3200 came out, the only comparable speed Kodak film was Royal X Pan, I have some frozen; it came in 4x5, 120, and had grain to trip over - way worse than TriX (which I considered ei 250).
Kodak's efforts also might be better put into saving themselves from a second bankruptcy than introducing new and risky films.
Do we get anything fundamentally new with P3200 or Ektachrome? Fuji and Ilford have very similar films that serve the same purpose. The number of people who will care about the difference between, for instance, P3200 and Delta 3200, or Provia and Ektachrome (though there is a difference, of course), is probably too small to do anything but fracture the market and hurt all the companies.
In other words, I'm not sure the market can support more films right now. Maybe sometime in the future - the film market is growing - but not currently.
The only way the film market is going to grow more than slightly is if it is fundamentally transformed.
Apparently this concludes their investigation of "what it would take to bring it back" from last year. Hopefully it's the last word on the subject for a while.
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I expect that their Kodachrome decision was founded more on the challenge of making processing available than it was on the challenge of making the film available.They're more interested in bringing back things like P3200, apparently. There were better films than that to bring back which would mean instant market share for Kodak.
Kodak's business decisions are a mystery wrapped in an enigma, contained in a riddle, for sure.
But yes, I guarantee you that Kodak never gave even 10% of a single thought to bringing back Kodachrome. They wouldn't bring it back if the year 1957 came and bit them in the face.
Use a lighted rangefinder.It enables me to take available light photographs at night, indoors without flash. The main difficulty for me is focussing in poor light. It does have quite large grain and the resolution is not wonderful but these are situations where it's either this or nothing at all.
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