I’m just sharing what I’ve seen—I have no idea how they actually operate.
I’m just really surprised by the idea of a hundreds ofmillion yuan investment.
Please buy Kodak. Please.Honestly, with a budget this high, wouldn’t it be more straightforward to just acquire an existing company?
Please buy Kodak. Please.
Just wait till they go through bankruptcy again.If one were to attempt to acquire it, it would require a significantly larger sum to seduce present shareholders (or even a majority).
Yes, this is the scenario behind most acquisitions these days.The only real rationale for a Chinese business to acquire EK would be to strip off any valuable assets, spit out the carcass and thereby get rid of a competitor.
"I heard on the Internet that...." Sigh.
Their Cooke Speed Panchro II for Leica M is amazing, with the classic Cooke look. Their recreation of the 35/2 Summicron is also excellent. Both of these are fractions of the prices of the originals.
Chinese manufacturers are really upping their games. Eons ago, Japanese cars and electronics were cheap "knockoffs". Twenty years ago, Korean cars were a joke. I think Chinese manufacturers are undergoing similar transition.
I will go one step further and predict they will exceed all others before them, especially give how resourceful they’ve managed to be.
Not to mention that China is a big country. A lot bigger than Japan and Korea combined, controlling a lot more resources, and with a considerably larger population. So your prediction makes perfect sense. China is a world power, and its star is still rising; it's as simple as that.
I heard someone offer the idea that Light Lens Lab may have acquired Fujifilm's film production equipment.
That's a ridiculous idea at so many levels.
I think it was intended to mean one or two machines that were used for film production that are no longer being used.
I agree with your assessment on the emergence of how Chinese technology and industrial development will be no less than what Japan and Korea has manage to achieve. I will go one step further and predict they will exceed all others before them, especially give how resourceful they’ve managed to be.
With all due respect I find it curious how it is common knowledge (or taking as common knowledge) that China is not on par with Japan/Korea. Their level of manufacturing is quite high and I would say not subpar to Japan/Korea.
Based on my experience, Chinese manufacturing has all levels of quality. For cutting edge line to crude workshops. I used to work for a local hardware retail store and we often went to China to get products for the company inhouse trademark. They had all levels of quality, to suit everybody pockets. Surely, they were lots of companies that offered cheap, low-quality wares but they offered quality stuff too (for a price).
My other passion besides photography is cello. I found that China had both industrial level workshops that produce anything from cheap, $10 violins for Amazon, to concert level instruments. It also have low level workshops that pays a person to carve the back of a violin a day instead to pay the energy for an automated process because the worker fee is cheaper that the energy price. Then there exist workshops (like the one I get my instrument from) that pays decent salaries to their highly trained artisans and sell quality instruments.
I guess it boils down to China being too damn big, so there are all levels of industry.
I think what I was speaking to was the perception of those nations and the reputation they have, particularly here in United States. In general, it doesn't seem to be realized here by the general public the power and scale of China's technology and industry.
There is a reason USA is on a process of commercial war with China.
Which is about as far as we'll venture in that policy-related direction.
Not sure if this has been posted yet, but this was posted on the Keica disc server from someone at LLL. The purple coating is apparently the anti-halation dye.
Fujichrome rolls
If this image is somewhat representative of the actual conceptual design, then they have an interesting approach to coating the film. It's very different from how Kodak and Fuji do it (not sure about Foma & Harman).
A part of two updates coming up
Film Project Update II - Automation
Hello Everyone, We want to provide you with an update on our progress in film development, specifically focusing on our automation processes. With this update, we are concentrating on film manufacturing automation units. Our proprietary machine allow us to be fully self-sufficient, and...lightlenslab.com
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