I was there for the destruction of B65 and 69. They served pastries and hot coffee. It was a pain driving home through the dust. It crossed my path once about 2 miles north of the park and turned everything black.
PE
"By 2007, Agfa's central facility in Mortsel, Belgium, near Antwerp, had already closed. Agfa-Gevaert Company, originally Gevaert & Cie, was established in 1894. Kodak, Agfa and Ilford, these companies date back to the late 1800s. The loss of these film-producers elicited a sense of finality," Burley says.
Burley photographed Agfa's closing in Belgium in 2007
The inventor of 2e sensitization was telling me that most of her data got thrown into a dumpster.
PE
I found two things about the article's "slant" interesting. First, there's no mention of the "F" word (Fuji). Second, this quote is presented as fact:
"Because of the precision and the chemistry, the way film needs to be manufactured, you have to make miles and miles of film, to be consumed by millions of people, in order for the production of film to be a viable business model."
That's only true of one has facilities massively oversized for the current market. Ask Ilford how it's going for their products at much lower volume.
That's only true of one has facilities massively oversized for the current market. Ask Ilford how it's going for their products at much lower volume.
I was there for the destruction of B65 and 69. They served pastries and hot coffee. It was a pain driving home through the dust. It crossed my path once about 2 miles north of the park and turned everything black.
PE
It remains to be seen if FILM Ferrania will be able to manufacture films with consistent quality levels or with Impossible Project quality.
Ken,
I hoping for the best with Film Ferrania, but I suspect reaching Kodak/Fuji quality levels won't happen right away for them.
Perhaps fortunately, I sense the amateur cine guys are even more desperate than we still guys are. So we'll see...
Ken
Notice how the camera lingered on the spectator holding a Sony video camera? It made me note how many of the spectators were photographing the event on tiny little digital cameras from makers other than Kodak.
Chris
My Dad shot lots of B&W 16mm movies in the 1940's; I'm surprised today's B&W film producers aren't actively going after cine camera applications.
Stupid.
The removal of buildings I understand but I have never understood the purposeful destruction of knowledge. Especially knowledge that cost monumental effort and capital to gain. Stick it in a filing cabinet in a warehouse but for goodness sake don't throw it away. Sadly, the company I work at today has done the same thing, but mostly by pissing away employees.
Spent a lot of time in B-69 at one point. Hard to believe that is all gone. Hell, I haven't been to Rochester in over 20 years!
If my memory serves me correctly, I believe Ferrania was manufacturing Ferraniacolor in the 1950s. Is that the same company that you are talking about?.....Regards
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