I messaged Flic Film and they said Kodak has cut off most orders but they are still able to order.
and it implies that they are still in Eastman Kodak's Good books. It proably helps that they seem to do the volume where they buy film by the Pallet.Flic Film sell a lot of respooled film that originates from bulk film sources.
I just found out that Atlanta Film Company is out of stock on the Euphoric 100, in both 135-36 and 100' spools. I sent a message to them to see if they expect to get it back in stock. Will keep you posted upon response.
could that be the reason to be fussy about only selling 35mm stock to actual Productions
No, I think that's a little far-fetched, really. That is really about channel conflicts.
could that be the reason to be fussy about only selling 35mm stock to actual Productions?
Somewhere, possibly in this thread, I've seen a reference to KB Canham having got together enough orders for 5x7 Ektachrome, but having to wait for several months because all the master rolls of Ektachrome scheduled for manufacture are spoken for until then.
Where does that put companies like Cinestill(I know not they're not the only ones) who seemingly buy large quantities of film for respooling.
One thing, 99.9999% of photographers don't care about the apparent loss of 400' rolls of movie film. So that's a positive thing, right?
Why does this feel like the retirement situation once at Alaris?
that would be the EASTMAN KODAK pension plan. Alaris was set up in the Hope of funding the KODAK LIMITED Pension Plan. two different plans in two different continents.
What Charles said.
And a decision about the sale of an old pension plan asset is not an appropriate subject for Photrio - go to a business site if you wish to discuss it.
The current EK employees are participants in a different retirement income scheme, but even then, that scheme would not be an appropriate subject here.
And a decision about the sale of an old pension plan asset is not an appropriate subject for Photrio - go to a business site if you wish to discuss it.
No idea what the article is saying other than things are moving around at Kodak.
Another "out there" question-
It's been stated several times in this thread that E-K seemingly doesn't care about small volume, direct to consumer sales of 8mm and 16mm, and that the focus seem to be on 35mm film. That of course makes sense, as I imagine the only people using small format movie film for still use are ones potentially rolling their own miniature format stills(Minox, 110, etc, and I don't know how many people if anyone is doing that) and that has to be a basically insignificant blip compared to people using those formats for actual movie use
35mm of course is a different story, since that ALSO happens to be the most popular still format by a wide margin, cinema film is perfectly usable in most 35mm cameras provided that you can deal with cutting 400ft down to manageable lengths and your camera isn't going to throw a fit over having B&H perfs, don't mind not having frame numbers, and the market is ripe for relatively small operations to repackage it. Respooled movie film as still film has been around a long time-anyone remember Seattle Film Works?(my dad "discovered" them when they sent free film back in the 90s, and we have a lot of family vacations recorded on cinema film thanks to them).
In any case, in all of this I haven't seen 65mm mentioned. Granted that's a REALLY niche use it-offhand I'd guess there's maybe one big name movie a year on average that does, although granted I don't stay plugged into that. To my knowledge, no still cameras can use it directly unmodified, although a lot of cameras that can handle 70mm can be modified to handle 65mm. It can be slit to ~61mm to roll their own 120, and that certainly is done but there aren't too many people doing that. I imagine the minimum order quantities of 65mm turn a lot of people off even trying it for themselves, as for the stocks I've looked at it's either a single 1000ft roll or 16x 400 or 500ft rolls, or for some it's 16 rolls regardless of length(500T is the only one I see where you can order a single 1000ft roll for a nice $1509.27). A minimum quantity(16x 400ft) for 250D, for example, would set you back $9,900.80. That's not the kind of cash a lot of individuals will lay out at least at once for a single stock.
Mercury Works, which is the only vendor I'm aware of that's really catering to 65/70mm still photography, stocks 50D, 200T, 250D, and 500T in 50ft and 100ft lengths. They don't explicitly call those stocks out as "Vision3" but I can't imagine what else they'd be selling as fresh stock in 65mm with those lengths at those speeds/color balances.
I'm wondering how E-K would respond, though, to someone ordering 65mm in light of all the recent, though. I'm NOT about to try-I can handle and shoot 65mm, but without getting really creative I can't handle more than 100ft of it at a time(give or take-150ft is manageable for what I have if it's on thin base, which a lot of 70mm is, but I don't think that's true of cinema film). I'd certainly not want to learn on the fly with ~$1700 of 1000ft of 500T, or even ~$600-800 with of any stock in 400-500ft lengths...
I'll be curious to see if this shuts down the niche respoolers of 65mm, though. I don't know if anyone other than Mercury Works is doing it, especially as they also supply things like the custom spools of their own design to load 65mm into a conventional ~15ft Kodak-type 70mm cassette, and it's not another thing where there's REALLY direct competition, aside from K-A directing you to 120 format Portra stocks, which most any still camera capable of shooting 65mm film likely can easily handle.
What Charles said.
And a decision about the sale of an old pension plan asset is not an appropriate subject for Photrio - go to a business site if you wish to discuss it.
The current EK employees are participants in a different retirement income scheme, but even then, that scheme would not be an appropriate subject here.
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