I received an e-mail this morning from thedarkroom.com stating that they can no longer mount 35mm slides due to a shortage of mounts.... if this is an industry-wide problem, this will make E-6 much less attractive to me and others and may hurt E-6 sales.
I’ll be happy if I ever see some of this mythical Ektachrome at a price I’m willing to buy... mounting is the least of my worries.
Slide mounting is a niche service associated with slide film, which is a niche product, associated with film photography, which is a niche hobby/industry. We are dinosaurs... Neanderthal at best.
I’ll be happy if I ever see some of this mythical Ektachrome at a price I’m willing to buy... mounting is the least of my worries.
By the way Agx I saw this problem with some mounts long time before and ordered some in panic of avaibility 2005!!!!!! Today there are still 3000 or more mounts my own but self mounting is a bit frustrating if you have more than 10 35mm E6 to mount.Europe's largest industrial lab cancelled slide-mounting two years ago due to lack of spares for their mounting machine(s).
Of course anything can be repaired, but with a processing price at about 2€ per film and the minmal numbers of slide film they get sent in...
In fact : If your service and possible others services are indeed "hanging" on the unavaibility of mountsI can see that mounting film when the cost of development is 2 Euros would not be profitable. On the other hand, thedarkroom.com charges $14/roll plus shipping. With the current changes, I have seen nothing to suggest that the price will be lowered, and have every reason to believe that when mounting is re-available it will be at an additional charge.
I know that I can mount the images myself. In fact, receiving unmounted film will allow me to scan the complete image before mounting. On the other hand, if I am having to do all that work myself, I might as well develop my own E-6. I could probably modify my workflow so that I could mount images as I scan them - that way I can be 100% analog and hybrid at the same time.
I will likely still use thedarkroom's services from time-to-time as it is convenient to have pre-paid mailers (no trip to the post office) and scans emailed on development (if the slides are lost, at least there is some low-res preservation of the images). I guess what bothers me the most is that this announcement comes out right as Ektachrome is released.
If Kodak was smart they’d stick to their knitting and make film so both the availability and demand is really there. I’m quite sure an enterprising third-party can solve and fulfill the mounting problem if there is a profit to be made.In fact : If your service and possible others services are indeed "hanging" on the unavaibility of mounts
(Sold out / discontinuation Worldwide) Kodak has to react : LOOK at calculation from above.
A lab can't order that efficiency amound but Kodak should be able. Thinking about Kodak paper mounts !
with regards
Either the business model isn't working or there's no profit to be made.I’m quite sure an enterprising third-party can solve and fulfill the mounting problem if there is a profit to be made.
Well... that’s the absolute truth.Either the business model isn't working or there's no profit to be made.
In case of unprofitability there is allways the solution of mixed calculation and indirect subsidization.Either the business model isn't working or there's no profit to be made.
I guess Agfa was THE champion at last. Slide projection had seen its culmination within the later 70th.Yes, I remember well, but not the red ones except as seen by slides shot by my Dad. Although Kodak is stamped on the cardboard, my question was did Kodak actually manufacture, sell or provide as a courtesy that cardboard or the associated equipment.
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If it's dribbled out, it's just that much more appealingA major film retailer in my area had just 50 rolls. Of course they were all sold out before they even arrived. That kind of quantity is nothing more than a field trial. I keep asking and nobody, including yourself, Trendland, can answer (numerically) how big is/was the supply and how big is/was the demand. Commercialially viable supply or demand is just idle speculation on the internet it seems. I really think both are severely limited...
For me that makes this “product “ both mythical and elusive. I could be a user (as I once was) but not invested enough to go too far out of my way until (God willing) I can walk into a camera shop, plunk my money down, and walk out the door with a few rolls. Okay... I’ll be willing to mailorder too but only if it is shipped immediately. I refused to prepay on a hope of a possible future delivery.
I guess Agfa was THE champion at last. Slide projection had seen its culmination within the later 70th.
The latest Innovation with slide mounts came from Agfa 1992 (AgfaCS) and yes in regard of this,
Yes, I remember well, but not the red ones except as seen by slides shot by my Dad. Although Kodak is stamped on the cardboard, my question was did Kodak actually manufacture, sell or provide as a courtesy that cardboard or the associated equipment. I ask because I really don’t know. Everyone who ever processed 35mm e-6 for me just mounted... sometimes in Kodak-marked mounts and sometimes in plain white generic mounts. I have no idea where they got the mounts or the equipment..
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