Kodak CEO uses 35mm film as business card

[Prof_Pixel]

http://petapixel.com/2016/01/12/kodaks-ceo-uses-35mm-film-as-his-business-card/

 

[pdeeh]

marvellous

 

[mooseontheloose]

+1

I want my own film business card.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I wish that I had thought of that.

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

"Kodak CEO Jeff Clarke is on a mission to bring film back..."

Fred, are you reading along?



Ken

 

[MattKing]

Note that it is motion picture film.

But still really neat.

 

[Photo Engineer]

Gee, I have the old business card printed on color paper!

PE

 

[Sirius Glass]

Note that it is motion picture film.

But still really neat.

Film is film. More practical than glass plates for business cards.

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

Note that it is motion picture film.

But the many of the motivations behind saving motion picture film are analogous to similar motivations to save still film. They hold overlapping common cause. And in Kodak's current cause-effect manufacturing chain motion picture film has long been presented as an absolute prerequisite to still film. No former, no latter.

So it's still good news.

Maybe he should have one of those business cards made up for Mr. Perez and mail it to him as a souvenir?



Ken

 

[RobC]

didn't the last ceo say film was dead? Shame nobody is making any cameras to use it in.

 

[JimCee]

Note that it is motion picture film.

Having film continuing in use for motion pictures can still provide an incentive for Kodak to maintain their manufacture of consumer films...

Jim

 

[MattKing]

Film is film. More practical than glass plates.

But the many of the motivations behind saving motion picture film are analogous to similar motivations to save still film. They hold overlapping common cause. And in Kodak's current cause-effect manufacturing chain motion picture film has long been presented as an absolute prerequisite to still film. No former, no latter.

So it's still good news.

Maybe he should have one of those business cards made up for Mr. Perez and mail it to him as a souvenir?



Ken

Having film continuing in use for motion pictures can still provide an incentive for Kodak to maintain their manufacture of consumer films...

Jim

I made the observation about it being motion picture film because of the Alaris/Eastman division of the marketplace.

It would be really, really good to see something like this done together by the two entities.

 

[RattyMouse]

didn't the last ceo say film was dead? Shame nobody is making any cameras to use it in.

Finding cameras to shoot film is not a problem in today's world that needs solving.

Nikon makes 2 film cameras by the way.

 

[RattyMouse]

Maybe he should have one of those business cards made up for Mr. Perez and mail it to him as a souvenir?



Ken

Brutal!

 

[Paul Howell]

Finding cameras to shoot film is not a problem in today's world that needs solving.

Nikon makes 2 film cameras by the way.

Nikon only offers 2, the FM 10 which is no longer in production old stock and the F6, by the way both have been pushed down on the Nikon USA web page, need to drill to find them.

In the long run, to keep film alive we do need new 35mm cameras, entry level, maybe if the super 8 project succeeds Kodak will offer a hybrid still camera.

 

[Patrick Robert James]

This guy's attitude just highlights how much of a Tool Perez was. I put Perez and the guy that ran Polaroid into the ground as the biggest a$$hats in the history of photography.

 

[darkosaric]

I am using credit card size silver gelatin prints as business cards for years.

 

[MattKing]

My Dad had his Kodak business card still in his wallet when he recently passed away. He retired more than 30 years ago. It is printed on Kodak colour photographic paper.

There were a few different versions over the years. We have the 35mm negative for at least one.

Here is one of those versions:

 

[Ektagraphic]

I had thought about doing this a little while back with a 645 camera on 120 film. This is great!

 

[fotch]

Certainly a positive step in the right direction. Go Kodak.

 

[Sirius Glass]

My Dad had his Kodak business card still in his wallet when he recently passed away. He retired more than 30 years ago. It is printed on Kodak colour photographic paper.

There were a few different versions over the years. We have the 35mm negative for at least one.

Here is one of those versions:

After I left Kodak I had a box of them for myself. I just no longer can find it. I kinda doubt that Kodak would make a new box of business cards for me, though.

 

[removed account4]

i had mine on a piece of exposed film for a little while and
then i made a 16x20 print made with a hand crafted negative
cut it up and wrote my name &c on the other side. people thought it was great
and i was never used as a note pad and lost with someone else's info written on the back of my card.

 

[wy2l]

Too little, too late.

Another zesty slogan will not change the downward death spiral of the Great Yellow Father.

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

It's a novel, but I think impractical twist on the old business card idea. Cards invariably end up in wallets and they do have to be durable. A piece of film will be scratched, crimped, kinked, folded and bent. Probably of more value as a keepsake than a durable reminder. Cards printed to Ilford Smooth Pearl or Hahnemühle heavy art card are my long-proven choices.

 

[Ai Print]

Too little, too late.

Another zesty slogan will not change the downward death spiral of the Great Yellow Father.

Too late for you maybe, not for those of us who routinely purchase and use Kodak products who have never lost the faith.