Kinda odd when you consider Fuji is still making a new MF camera and have recently released another with a shorter focal length. So what gives there?
How has digital replaced slide projection? I still can't find (or afford) a digital projector that can match the resolution of a 35mm slide.
I'm not too concerned about Kodak dropping reversal film. I've always preferred Velvia 50 over Ektachrome. Kodachrome was a real loss; I'm not so concerned about Ektachrome.
How will this affect cine films?
From the perspective of the overall world of photography, I'm sorry to see it go, but I don't find it surprising. My own slide shooting started tapering off 30 years ago.
My most recent attempts at transparencies have run into "local" processing taking two weeks or more, and in some cases, evidence of less than careful handling, and I don't use enough to even consider doing it myself. I do have a few rolls of Provia here yet, but they aren't being consumed very rapidly.
"The only thing constant is change."
Ugh. I don't shoot much slide film now but when I do I prefer E100G since Fuji dropped Astia. If Fuji would bring back Astia the reversal world would be ok again. Well if we also had Ilfochrome. Yeesh.
Yes Ian, I'm aware of Champion. I was using the term spinoff loosely. They spun off their chemisty to Champion,
which seems to be doing just fine.
Ugh. I don't shoot much slide film now but when I do I prefer E100G since Fuji dropped Astia. If Fuji would bring back Astia the reversal world would be ok again. Well if we also had Ilfochrome. Yeesh.
If Fuji would bring back Astia the reversal world would be ok again. Well if we also had Ilfochrome. Yeesh.
Champion is listed as one of Kodak's biggest unpaid, unsecured creditors in the bankruptcy filing. And creditors are amazingly vulnerable in a bankruptcy.
Sorry to sound like a couple of eastern Canadians.
Through social networking. No longer is there a need to use food and alcohol to entice your friends and family into sitting in a dark room so they can be bored to death by ones vacation photos. They're up on Facebook long before the vacation is even over, and people can now ignore them from the comfort of their own computer screen.
Dave -
I don't know who you use for E6 processing, but I've been satisfied with Colourworks in Wilmington.
The other brands are under the same pressure of declining demand.
It's an industry-wide problem. From Fuji's perspective this may not be a good thing because they are now seen as the sole source for tying their brand to the E6 product in constant demand decline. If they cannot find enough customers, then Fuji will get the "killed it" tag.
Kodak cannot afford to invest in fickle customers. It has a fiscal duty to its shareholders (now creditors) and it often makes sense in business to walk away from products and customers that do not serve the bottom line.
Both Kodak and Fuji appear to be helpless in stemming the drop in film demand. That's why I hope some Hollywood connected private equity will pick up the market and consolidate.
Sadly when slide film is gone, my presentations will probably largely go d*****l. Notice I didn't say capture... I've scanned some negatives I shot last spring and the detail in them is quite good, even when viewed on a computer screen. Guess I'll have to start saving up a few bucks for that other kind of projector that really stinks.
"Right now E-6 is doing very well..."
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