They neither look great nor terrible. They look like progress.
Kodak Reintroduces Ektachrome.
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When the new Ektachrome is released, you guys will not have anything to bitch about.
Cost?
Why would Kodak not have a processional produce high quality scans? That makes no sense.
The lady at the photo store sadly shook her head when I asked about the the new Ektachrome.
Whenever I drive past the Kodak plant on Lake Avenue, I'm struck by the vast emptiness of the parking lots, studded with weeds. Half of the original buildings are gone. I get the impression that the film division is staffed by a skeleton crew of old timers who are just hanging on, waiting for the inevitable. I really hope they are able to pull off the Ektachrome trick, but wouldn't expect any new technical ground to be broken. Even so, processing will be a huge problem. There's exactly ONE lab here in the former "Imaging Centre" that still does E6 and the last roll I sent in took a week to get done. Photo processing mailers were acceptable back in analog times, but waiting more than a day or two to see your pictures might be intolerable for the digital generation. If Kodak can provide processing with quick downloads of high-quality scans, the slow return of the actual film might be OK.
Whenever I drive past the Kodak plant on Lake Avenue, I'm struck by the vast emptiness of the parking lots, studded with weeds. Half of the original buildings are gone. I get the impression that the film division is staffed by a skeleton crew of old timers who are just hanging on, waiting for the inevitable. I really hope they are able to pull off the Ektachrome trick, but wouldn't expect any new technical ground to be broken. Even so, processing will be a huge problem. There's exactly ONE lab here in the former "Imaging Centre" that still does E6 and the last roll I sent in took a week to get done. Photo processing mailers were acceptable back in analog times, but waiting more than a day or two to see your pictures might be intolerable for the digital generation. If Kodak can provide processing with quick downloads of high-quality scans, the slow return of the actual film might be OK.
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I'm sure they will...
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Crappy facebook and instagram compression.
Exactly!
Why not put full quality images on their own web site? Why rely on a 3rd party to muck up all their hard work?
Ha! Don't kid yourself...
I can almost hear people complaining that the box is too yellow.
Certainly not. Something more like Astia would be very popular indeed as there is nothing like it currently on the market. The colour on the portrait example in particular is really horrid, a former poster nailed it by saying faded RA4. I have a picture from my graduation that has gone like that. It was printed on Konica paper back in the mid 90s. The memory is of course important but the picture colours not nice at all.
Same here. I'm excited that I'll be able to project Super8 again; my movie cameras haven't been used in two years now. Shame it probably won't be this summer but it might be next.
I think there is a lot of truth there. The processing hassle is a hurdle even with C41 if you're used to instant and free gratification with digital image capture, and E6 is harder and slower to get processed due to lack of choice. E6 film with mailers for developing is a good idea for those uninterested in processing it themselves, and I agree it would be great if Kodak could take that on. Developing E6 at Kodak would be an awful lot easier than making the stuff after all.
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Because this is how media works in ought 18.
Nonsense. There are plenty of professional companies showing their products in the highest way possible. In fact, the majority do so.
Here's the long and the short of it for me:
I really like Provia or Velvia. If Ektachrome finally comes out, I will buy one roll and try it - but the only thing that will actually convince me to buy Ektachrome over Provia/Velvia is the price.
I really like Provia or Velvia. If Ektachrome finally comes out, I will buy one roll and try it - but the only thing that will actually convince me to buy Ektachrome over Provia/Velvia is the price.
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Gotta reach them kids. Kids don't want to go to corporate websites where the man hangs out. Kids want it in their feeds and timelines where it comes to them. It's like, what's this sliding film stuff?
Seriously though, if you're a child of the 80's/90's chances are you've never even seen slidefilm much less shot it. Mom shot color negatives and my disposable did the same. Black and white was some Kodak stuff that went to Walgreens and you got two prints. ISO? Dunno, higher numbers must be better so I'm gonna shoot 800 all the time.
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Yep Lee. Same here. It looks like an abandoned nuclear site.
And the chemistry was not that toxic. The environment was.
PE
Was working at Kodak a bad environment?
No, emphatically no, from a chemical standpoint. From a management standpoint.... Sometimes... 
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No, emphatically no, from a chemical standpoint. From a management standpoint.... Sometimes...
PE
PE e6 chemistry is not NON TOXIC
it is more TOXIC than some BW chemistry,
you can't dump it down your drain
and for the average consumer it is not run of the mill "stuff" is it ?
yes i know i know there are things like drain cleaners and stuffs people
use as household cleaners that are not good &c but im not talking about them
and i am guessing if you use TIDYBOWL as directed it isn't as bad as dumping
E6 Chems down your drain.. which is probably regulated ...
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Worse than hair-dye? Heck I put Drain-o down my drain, can't be worse than that.
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