MattKing
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Kodak Alaris appears to have updated several of the data sheets for Kodak Alaris products - mostly the current films. The document numbers themselves appear unchanged, but the contents of the updated versions have been updated at least with respect to eliminating references to Kodak products that are no longer available.
You can find links to what I assume to be all the film data sheets that Kodak Alaris considers current here: http://imaging.kodakalaris.com/professional-photographers/professional-films
Included in that link are two links for general guides to black and white processing and printing. Those two links also appear to have been updated to remove references to products that are no longer available. In that way they better fulfill one of their purposes - to serve as a good guide for beginners.
The Tech/Environment tab on the same site gives a list of the data sheets for chemicals, among other things: http://imaging.kodakalaris.com/professional-photographers/techenvironment
Most of those data sheets appear to have not been updated.
The old link that I have for Kodak Technical publications appears to still be available here: http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/support/databanks/filmDatabankIndex.jhtml
That latter link includes a lot of reference material for older, no longer available materials (like Plus-X). I'm hoping that those materials remain available.
I've done some cursory comparisons of things like development times for current T-Max 400, and haven't noticed any differences between the most recent Eastman Kodak version of F-4043 and the new (February 2016) Kodak Alaris F-4043. The new version is a fair bit shorter, due to removal of references to things like the no longer made Duraflo developer. If anyone sees any substantive changes, I'd appreciate a heads up.
One clear improvement is that the data sheet for T-Max 100 (F-4016) no longer deals with the older, replaced version of TMY or the no longer available T-Max 3200. The label on the Kodak Alaris link has not, unfortunately, been appropriately corrected.
You can find links to what I assume to be all the film data sheets that Kodak Alaris considers current here: http://imaging.kodakalaris.com/professional-photographers/professional-films
Included in that link are two links for general guides to black and white processing and printing. Those two links also appear to have been updated to remove references to products that are no longer available. In that way they better fulfill one of their purposes - to serve as a good guide for beginners.
The Tech/Environment tab on the same site gives a list of the data sheets for chemicals, among other things: http://imaging.kodakalaris.com/professional-photographers/techenvironment
Most of those data sheets appear to have not been updated.
The old link that I have for Kodak Technical publications appears to still be available here: http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/support/databanks/filmDatabankIndex.jhtml
That latter link includes a lot of reference material for older, no longer available materials (like Plus-X). I'm hoping that those materials remain available.
I've done some cursory comparisons of things like development times for current T-Max 400, and haven't noticed any differences between the most recent Eastman Kodak version of F-4043 and the new (February 2016) Kodak Alaris F-4043. The new version is a fair bit shorter, due to removal of references to things like the no longer made Duraflo developer. If anyone sees any substantive changes, I'd appreciate a heads up.
One clear improvement is that the data sheet for T-Max 100 (F-4016) no longer deals with the older, replaced version of TMY or the no longer available T-Max 3200. The label on the Kodak Alaris link has not, unfortunately, been appropriately corrected.
