If you need customer service or information with respect to Kodak still film, you should go to:So we should remember to use SinoPromise or SP now instead of KA for chemicals. Is this correct. KA is EK still film only?
However if a problem arises with an EK film then as consumers the face of EK remains KA in terms of the front man?
Thanks
pentaxuser
By the way, and for what its worth, I expect that all or most of the Kodak branded black and white photo chemicals that we have been using have been contract manufactured by third parties unrelated to Eastman Kodak or Kodak Alaris for something like a quarter century. I base that on fact that Eastman Chemicals was spun off in 1994.
They do. But that isn't really a commercial product, mass market factory.I have no doubt that you are right about Kodak outsourcing photochemical production, but it appears that they still have a significant chemical synthesis operation. From their website:
https://www.kodak.com/en/advanced-materials/page/specialty-chemicals
I think that advanced chemical is more of a plea for business than a thriving enterprise.They do. But that isn't really a commercial product, mass market factory.
And most of that probably isn't in any way related directly to the photo chemicals we or labs use.
There is probably a small portion that is related to film and motion picture development, but mostly there probably is no connection between the product from that division and analogue photography.
Eastman Kodak is mainly a commercial printing (as in ink and presses) support business.
Just fiy, Coca-Cola could never afford one single canister to taste differently than what Coca-Cola is supposed to be tasting. That would be a marketing disaster.
Kodak Alaris no longer sells photo chemicals. They just sold that business to Sino Promise.
Before the sale, they did manufacture colour chemicals. They had a factory in China, and I believe a factory in South America. They sold those factories to Sino Promise as part of the sale.
They may have also contracted out some of the colour chemical manufacture.
And if the next set of Duracell batteries leaked, would you go for a third round?I recently had a pack of Duracell batteries start leaking, while in their original packaging, less than 3 months after I bought them. Instead of swearing and raging against Duracell, I contacted them, and they sent me a pre-paid return package, because they wanted to find out what went wrong. I was more than happy to oblige them. And yes, they sent me replacement batteries as well.
Matt, you're trying to talk sense to a mob of angry armchair internet experts who know that it's perfectly simple to manufacture, package, and distribute globally during a pandemic, chemicals for a niche market after downsizing from a massive multi-national conglomerate.
They're much more interested in metaphorically burning anything with a "K" logo to the ground, because that will somehow make their lives better.........
It's all in the attitude, and the attitudes in this thread have, by and large, been childish.
An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician were traveling together. One night three fires broke out in each of their hotel rooms."
I think every auto manufacturer has had recalls, yet we still buy their cars...
I hope they do identify the problem.
Same here, I only have one bag of this lot, so it won't be a big issue if I lose it, but it may affect my future purchases...10 days since my first email with Kodak and still no response.
If they really cared about this situation, they would have responded already. In 10 days or 240 hours you can send plenty of emails. I even emailed again few days ago and no response to that either.
I would say the company doesn't care / new owner doesn't understand the situation at all.
10 days since my first email with Kodak and still no response.
If they really cared about this situation, they would have responded already. In 10 days or 240 hours you can send plenty of emails. I even emailed again few days ago and no response to that either.
I would say the company doesn't care / new owner doesn't understand the situation at all.
I should add that it only took a few days to hear back from them... If I hadn't heard from them yet, I'd probably keep emailing them.
im guessing the xtol would work OK if mixed with a bit of one's favorite print developer .. les mclean wrote at one point about how he liked to add a little rodinal into his xtol to give it a little something he thought it was missing. I typically add a shake of whatever print developer I have lying around when I use caffneolC which sometimes has a tendency to give thin xtolesque negatives. all may not be lost, and who knows you might like xtolxtra better than it performs flying solo...
YMMV
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