I hope they can find a source of *color* emulsion material. At this point in the game, it probably comes down to Kodak, Ferrania, or Lucky. I don't know if Kodak's prior lawsuit loss to Polaroid will preclude them from this.
They don't tend to be cooperative with other manufacturers that much anyway.
Then both Ferrania and Lucky are probably not advanced enough. This may well be impossible when it comes to color materials, which are far more useful and a far bigger volume of consumption anyway.
There is no technical reason why Ilford could not coat a color emulsion, they just choose to stay with b/w only for their output. Ilfords coating equipment is state-of-the-art, and capable of coating ANY type of emulsion, as long as they want to do it.
But, you are forgetting one BIG manufacturer that still coats and offers color emulsions for their industrial/aerial film markets, and that is Agfa/Gevaert..in Belgium. They even offer custom coating on their state-of-the-art line.
No offense intended to Ilford, but I hardly think they could compete in what is, after all, still the most profitable segment of the market: color negative films.
If Ilford, could, as you say, make color neg. films, then why did they sell rebranded C-41 stock circa 2000?
I mentioned nothing about "competing". Nothing. Obviously Ilford felt it more economical to just slap their name on another C-41 product.
What I am talking about is that Harman has the technical skill and manufacturing capabilities to coat multi-layer emulsions, regardless of whether they are b/w or color.
Impossible has stated to aim for the retail price of a filmpack at about 25 .
This seems completely unrealistic. That is, what, $35/pack? $ 3 1/2 per sheet?
Unless they produce a truly superior product to what Fuji currently offers, Polaroid formerly did, there is no way that this business model is going to work. Why would people spend almost three times as much for an essentially identica product?
UK retail prices for (a twin pack - 20 pictures)600 film was £20.99 before the announcement of "the end" and now it's £21.99 (Available at most Boots chemist shops if anyone is looking). With the pound at near parity with the euro, £25 doesn't sound too bad to me. It's not like I go through it a pack a day.
US has always been stupidly cheaper for polaroid film. But polaroid has never been "cheap" as in cheaper than plain film. It'd be pretty impossible given the complexity of the product. I know when I was a kid I wasn't allowed near the polaroid camera because the film was expensive.
And if it came down to it, I'd pay £25 for a single pack because, what's the alternative? Nothing. Instax cameras are crap and are not on par with my SX-70. My SX-70 will have no more "food". And nothing against Silverprint but they're selling a twin pack for £31.22 currently, so I expect the "market price" of real Polaroid 600 film is going to skyrocket as availability goes down so £25 at the moment isn't sounding too bad to me. Like I said before, I'm not blasting through the stuff.
And yes it's about 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in inches.
Forgive me, I thought you wanted to have a serious conversation about actual production possibilities, not hypothetical day-dreaming.
Fuji pack film in 4x5 is about $3.00 per sheet, in the smaller pack-film size it is about 80 cents per sheet.
Your 4x5" figures sound too high (at least when we still had Polaroids). Your 2 1/4 x 3 1/4" figures sound too low. Even when I was buying from B&H I didn't get it below a dollar a Polaroid. $1 even is the cheapest I remember in recent years. . .
I use Fuji PF100c45 all the time. It varies from $29.95 to $39.95 per 10 sheet pack. $3 to $4 per sheet. Polaroid single-sheet films such as type 79 were last being sold (before announcement of discontinuance) at about $89.00 for 20 sheets, or over $4. per sheet. The 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 Fuji color pack film 10 sheet pack is about $8.00, so 80 cents per sheet, it is cheaper than the polaroid was before discontinuance.
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