You keep forgetting the huge lack of interest in the buying public.
And as PE has said, Kodachrome is a difficult film to make. Remember?
Ektachrome uses chemicals to cause the film to reverse.
Kodachrome needs light.
Kodachrome chemicals basically need a chemical technician/chemist on staff.
Ektachrome chemicals can be bought off the shelf.
JOBOs won't do the job.
NZoomed, where did you see the survey about Ektachrome? Were you questioned? Do we know anyone from APUG that was questioned? The decision for Ektachrome is as opaque as the decision for Kodachrome will probably be (or is). Marketing for nostalgia only works on old photographers!
PE
Have you been paying attention the last few weeks?So far only one person has claimed to have processed it at home. And wasn't even at home, it was at his photo lab. The quality was subpar according to him, but usable. He was willing to process a roll for a fee of $1000 per roll, and he wasn't joking about the price.
Kodachrome is dead. Kodak is not going to restart a product that a half dozen people will buy 2-3 rolls of per year.
If you get a chance to hear Steve McCurry speak some time, he is quite entertaining and informative.Steve McCurry will be their biggest customer
There were thousands of rolls going to dwaynes before Kodak stopped its production...
My experience, here in Finland, is the complete opposite of what you describe. Right up until the very end, Kodachrome was the cheapest and most convenient way for me to shoot slides. Film was always sold with processing (and mounting) included, and the price was less than film+processing of most E6 films. Even after Lausanne stopped processing, you'd still send the film there, and they'd ship them in batches to Dwayne's. No customs hassles or additional costs for the customer. And super convenient: just drop it in the mail, and get it back in the mail a few weeks later.When there was still the Lausanne lab around Kodachrome was kinda practical. And I mean... kinda. If you did super8 it was the easiest choice. In 135 a more masochistic and expensive choice.
When it remained only in the USA it was just a big hassle and not worth it. Shipment was (is) expensive, slow, and I even had to fill a customs form (!).
I dont think Kodak has quoted any film(s) in particular, but yes I agree, Im not sure what they intend to introduce, I had heard Plus-X and Pantatomic-X thrown around here. Obviously serious R&D would be required if banned chemicals exist in these films.
I agree the B&W market is flooded.
If Kodak concentrate on colour films, it would not bother me, I dont really shoot B&W anyway, but alot do.
There is tons of B&W films on the market, but very few choices for shooting in colour these days.
T-max and Tri-X are both popular B&W films anyway, I am really interested to know what Kodak do intend to reintroduce if its not a B&W film?
Perhaps they are looking at e100vs? That would be a big surprise if they did.
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The future of film is B&W. You don't need a lab or a darkroom. Mixing up your own chems for it is pretty straight forward. It can do B&W better than digital not because of resolution but because it is instantly identifiable. It's archival and you can make easy prints from it at home.
Someday within my lifetime C-41 will either go extinct or become far too expensive or a hassle to shoot. B&W will stick around long after I'm gone.
Im talking about over a year, sorry should have clarified that.That statement doesn't carry a lot of weight since you don't mention a time frame. Was this over a period of years? One year? A month? A day?
Also, one must take into account what effect that Kodak announcing the end of production might have had on the volume, as well as the effect of people's expectations that the end of processing was surely to follow, and eventually the actual announcement that the processing would end. All would cause unusual spikes in volume as people world-wide rushed to use up their stocks that had sat in the freezer after they switched to E-6 or digital, or for other reasons, and get it processed.
Thats happening this year!They have to actually release a color film first, don't they?
Ektachrome uses chemicals to cause the film to reverse.
Kodachrome needs light.
Kodachrome chemicals basically need a chemical technician/chemist on staff.
Ektachrome chemicals can be bought off the shelf.
JOBOs won't do the job.
I do.But do you think it's impossible to make a small automatic lab, costing let's say 10.000 Euros, that is capable of doing the light exposure at the right time, with the right intensity?
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