Kodak's down? Tri-X will survive...

[vpwphoto]

Here I go... I am as much of an armchair engineer as some of you (NOT talking about PE). Just shipping equipement and formulas is not so easy. My dad's company closed and thought they would just ship the machinery off to Mexico City and plug it in and keep making rubber shit. They didn't even need a dark clean factory and they made scrap for a year, and five years out were still making inferior products.

Those Kodak coating machines are city block long and small skyscraper high and they are in DARK CLEAN buildings.

Oh well, again. I may not be able to have Tri-x two years from now... but I have HP4 and Pan F and I'll have to make due.

 

[bill schwab]

Can everyone get back to work now?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsav...ts-restructuring-plan-shares-rebound-sharply/

 

[viridari]

Can everyone get back to work now?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsav...ts-restructuring-plan-shares-rebound-sharply/

From TFA:

and accelerate its transformation into a digital company

...

As we complete Kodak’s transformation to a digital company (...)

What's in the way of completing that transformation? Oh, yeah... analog products!

 

[Photo Engineer]

Kodak has been "completing" that transition for several years now and Perez is still leading the whole mess! Yeah, Kodak was up sharply yesterday. It was pitiful all the same.

Now, on cans. Ever put an air tight plastic bag of something in a freezer? Note the creeping ice? Film is filled with volatiles that can slowly outgas and creep through the weak seals of the plastic containers which might withstand an abrupt change in pressure but which might not withstand a slow change in environment.

I am not saying it WILL, I am cautioning you that it MIGHT be bad, or at least not as good as hermetically sealed foil wrappers or metal cans which were used 20 - 30 years ago. The storage conditions have changed because of the packing material.

PE

 

[MDR]

Didn't Perez just sell the sensor division so the transition he means isn't to digital but to printers. Is there a place where one can buy new metal cans not the motion picture kind.

Dominik

 

[Brian C. Miller]

Vacuum baggers can seal the bag before the vacuum is fully formed. Just hit the button, and the heating elements will come on and melt the plastic. This is what is done for things like stews, where the liquid would otherwise be sucked out the bag by the vacuum pump.

Myself, I've used Tri-X 4x5 that was frozen in 1987 or so. Still good after opening the factory sealed bag. The sheets that were in a bag that had been opened were still usable, but 1/2-inch on the edge toward the bag opening didn't develop well.