Kodak Elite Chrome availability?

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• Mar 9, 2008

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Anyone know why some or all of the Elite Chrome films are unavailable at many US retailers lately? It's nothing new, either.

Neither B&H nor Adorama even list 400 anymore, and most of the other types have been out of stock or backordered for some time.

EBX isn't sold in the US anymore, except as import, as far as I know.

 

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• Mar 9, 2008

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Discontinued, I'm afraid.

 

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• Mar 11, 2008

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Interesting

Interestingly, Kodak lists everything except Elite Chrome 400 on their website: http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=2/3/9/7010/6994/1095&pq-locale=en_US

Last I checked, all versions were listed. i'll bet you none will be listed in the near future! EBX is still up there! :confused: But none of the Elite Chrome films are available at retailers!

Man, Kodak really makes it look like they want nothing to do with consumer film. That link above was buried 4 or so links deep from the menu on their main page!

Elite Chrome 400...yet another silent film discontinuation...

 

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• Mar 11, 2008

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It wasn't quite silent...
http://2point8.whileseated.org/?p=287
It was my understanding that the Ektachrome 400X Family was Elite Chrome.

 

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• Mar 11, 2008

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Sneaky

That's just sneaky! I had seen that document when they announced it, and the other one that preceeded it. But I didn't realize that Elite Chrome counted as part of the Ektachrome 400x family. No wonder they said "Ektachrome 400x Family"!

I thought the Elite Chromes belonged to the "Professional Elite Chrome Family"! Does that mean that Elite Chrome 200 is actually part of the "Ektachrome E200 Family"? And that Elite Chrome 100 is a member of the "Ektachrome E100 Family"? Geeze Leweez! ;-)

 

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• Mar 16, 2008

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I have noticed the same thing about Elite Chrome 100. It is a very fine grained film with neutral color. For most purposes it's excellent. Before the price went up recently it was also the last bargain in color slide film. If you are not going to project your slides then you can shoot with a non-pro film like Elite Chrome 100 and change the color after scanning to get any kind of print you like. If Elite Chrome slide films are discontinued it's just because Kodak wants you to pay $10 a roll for the pro film.