The Kodak announcement was made over four years ago. Has any progress been made toward that end? As far as Kodachrome goes, nothing was said about processing it.
Everything about Kodachrome film is in the public domain except the brand name. Nothing stops anyone from manufacturing the film and setting up a plant to process it. You couldn't call it "Kodachrome", but you could say "film based on the same design which captured these famous images" and show the color frame of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima or the Zapruder Film or whatever you can get.
Kodachrome was the first monopack, chromogenic film and it has a simple design. At its most basic: top layer--a blue sensitive emulsion which can be made without a sensitizing dye; second layer--yellow filter made out of Cary Lea silver which itself is yellow in color; third layer--green sensitive emulsion (this can be sensitive to blue/green because the blue light will be filtered out by the Cary Lea silver) which can also be made without a sensitizing dye; red sensitive layer--this requires a sensitizing dye which is still sold by Sands, SDA3057. These layers are the bare bones of Kodachrome. You can include plain gelatin between the emulsion layers and add an anti-halation coating on the back. which is made out of gelatin and lamp-black (graphite).
APUG members have already figured out how to develop Kodachrome in color. Scale it up for a commercial plant! Go to Kickstarter or some other source of funds. If you think this film is valuable why not go into the business yourself? I guarantee that if you start making money on the film Kodak will consider reintroducing it themselves.
Oh, I know Fred, but I like answers.
Nzoomed, I have no idea what Ferrania is doing nor how they are doing it.
As for all of your engineering "talk" what are your qualifications for making these authoritative statements. Are you an engineer? Have you ever made an emulsion? Have you ever coated it? I would be interested in the answers and if there is a set of "no" answers, I would love to see you get into a darkroom and try making and coating an emulsion. That usually silences quite a few people.
PE
What "authoritative statements." exactly?
Their coater musthave alot of advantages than the coaters you are familiar with.
look at Ilford and the Impossible Project, they both make far less amounts of film than Kodak/Fuji and are making profitable amounts of film
Yes, genetic engineering is the answer. If they can make spider silk from goat's milk, and make a fluorescent green cat using jellyfish DNA, they can
probably invent a human that salivates Kodachrome emulsion.
Ron,
It's just another case of 'No job is impossible to the person who doesn't have to do it'.
Oh, I know Fred, but I like answers.
In order to answer your first question, you need only look at the rest of your post for examples of (unsubstantiated) "authoritative" statements ...
My emphasis added. If you can produce the management accounts to substantiate that film makes a profit for the companies you mention, and explain your technical grounds for your statements about different coaters, we'd be a lot further forward in taking you seriously.
In almost every post you make on APUG, you demonstrate that your grasp of manufacturing, process engineering, cost-economics, quality engineering, and just about every other aspect of the manufacture, distribution, sale and marketing of a consumer good is wafer thin.
My suggestion would be that your offer your services as an enthusiast to Ferrania, or perhaps as someone else suggested, do a Kickstarter for a project you are enthusiastic about.
None of have to defer to "experts", and there is everything to be said for a challenging scepticism towards anyone who says "It can't be done", but sometimes you just have to accept that you are up against the limits of what can be done both physically, chemically or practically, and that you are also trying to tell people who have extensive knowledge and experience that you just don't possess that they are wrong.
Depends how much money you can raise via that Kickstarter.
I don't know beans about emulsion making but I'd wager if the Gadowski and Mannes could do it with 1930s technology and process it successfully in a bathtub then it certainly COULD be done nowadays via a start up, given a successful enough Kickstarter. I don't have to know anything about it myself to know that.
Good luck raising...what? A few hundred million maybe? For an old version of a technology that most people think is dead even in modern forms where it isn't. (Film that is, not Kodachrome type color.)
Diapositivo said:It seems to me very reasonable to think that Ilford makes profit out of their film production.
Mannes and Godowski did not have to make emulsions or coat film. They requested coatings and then processed them. It was up to Kodak's emulsion makers and coating engineers to figure out how to reduce the film to practice. G&M came up with the process.
I think that your other comments were answered above.
PE
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