brianmquinn
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Elite Chrome 200 is back in stock at B&H.
Tungsten films were mostly used by commercial photographers. These people, long before digital came out, had switched to using strobes instead of tungsten lights; digital just put the last nail in the coffin for tungsten film.
And, the R&D of the first two has no bearing on the second two. If E6 were to go totally, then the reversal MP products would likely go as well.
VNF film is still sold and Kodak has posted the process chemistry for it. The film occupies a tiny niche market.
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VNF died a couple of years ago! the last big market for it was Crash tests, and the regulations changed so that they are sing digital now. The chemistry (VNF) is no longer available from Rochester.
Why does the average consumer, these days, not actually care enough to purchase products that last? (semi-rhetorical)
About as much use as a chocolate teapot.chocolate and teapot?
Sorry, I was reading in chronological order, and did not wait long enough to post.If you read following posts, you would see that I erred due to old data and was corrected. You are several days late.
Sorry, I was reading in chronological order, and did not wait long enough to post.
Has anyone heard what the discontinuance of the 64T will do to Super8? Many super 8 camera were having enough trouble with 64T (when they expected 40T) If they have only 100D many more will be out of work.
Shooting Super 8 on Negative basically means shooting Video as the only way to get a chemical print would be to blow-up to 16mm or have the lab slit and perf print stock by cutting down from 16 or 35.
One thing that has been happening between Fuji and Kodak is that their respective E-6 films do not compete as directly as in the past. When I ask the reps about this, I get a smile, but no direct reply. My contacts at Kodak also dodge the question, though I did get one authoritative reply of "it makes sense to follow that direction". So if a film goes away at Kodak, then I suggest trying something near that from Fuji.
We might wonder if Kodak still sells a greater volume of E-6 films than Fujifilm. Pure speculation, but I could imagine that if Fujifilm greatly exceed Kodak in this realm at some point in the future, then Fuji might become the only volume maker of E-6 films.
Hopefully this loss of EPP and EPY is the last Kodak film loss for a very long time.
It had better be. They don't have much else.
My best guess is that the consumer slide films will be the next to go, or maybe 400VC. I would say that, tragically, 400NC in 4x5 format will not last very long either. What a bloody shame.....it is the only 400 speed color film available in sheets. Hopefully we get that Rollei 800 speed color neg film in sheets some time soon.....
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