Late breaking Kodak news

[MMfoto]

Personally I have no doubt that 35mm B&W will be available for duration of my lifetime and probably much longer.

I suspect and hope for Ilford to do well indefinately.

That said, worst case scenario there will always be at least a large "super cottage industry" sized market to fuel all those vintage Leica's floating around in let's say another 50 years.

And maybe even it turns out someday that large format shooters do fuel the film industry and allow for "limited coating runs" of 35mm, provided enough advance orders.

 

[r-s]

Well, if that's true, then what's the problem? As soon as digital "equals" film, I'm not going back into the stinking darkroom. Why would I? This is not a religion. (Or is it?) :rolleyes:

Stop the presses! The Medium is NOT The Message (anymore!)

McCluhan must be spinning in his grave, kicking himself for his abysmal stupdity, feeling eternally humiliated, comforted only by the fact that it took this long for someone to come along and set him straight on the matter.

 

[r-s]

Could ANYONE use enough film to persuade Perez that Kodak should keep making it?

Can anyone persuade Perez that ANY film can be an part of "the All-Digital Kodak"?

 

[Photo Engineer]

Perez or one of the top executives was recently quoted in the paper as having said "Kodak is not a film company, it is an imaging company".

PE

 

[jstraw]

Perez or one of the top executives was recently quoted in the paper as having said "Kodak is not a film company, it is an imaging company".

PE

I think that's right. I think that's also appropriate.

 

[Jerevan]

I ordered some Tmax 100 sheet film in december. Today, a month later, I did some investigations and found out my film won't arrive in early march.

And today I got a new mail from my reseller which basically says that Tmax 100 in the 13x18 size is slashed, gone, kaput, finito from the distributors (swedish Kodak office) and their availability lists ... The list of available items is getting smaller by the day, it seems.

But it could be the reseller who is not really up to speed about what products really exist. Fewer and fewer of them really know anything about analog stuff.

 

[Lee Shively]

Just for the record, I despise the term "imaging".

 

[JLP]

Jerevan, You might want to check on this thread, there's still a little bit of life in the Tmax hopes.
(there was a url link here which no longer exists)


jan