Don't discount Innoviscoat (AGFA)
Fuji is selling off long ago manufactured film and when it's gone it's gone. Use the Acros experience as a guide. (I read postings of people buying a hundred 5-roll boxes of Acros at a time). Once Fuji announces the end of Provia or Velvia, the hoarders will descend and wipe out the supply in days not months.
I was reading a few months ago rumors that the announcement of the discontinuation of Fuji slide films was imminent but nothing at all has happened, we'll have to see what happens, i won't really believe it until, or if Fuji ever announces it officially.
All i know is that the Provia and Velvia i've been buying is a fresh batch.
Variations on this thread have been going around for nearly ten years, since the end of Kodachrome was announced. While Kodachrome was a wonderful film, the unusual requirements for its processing made it remarkable that it lasted as long as it did.
E-6 was always a niche market, even in the heyday of film. There was never an E-6 minilab that would process your slides in 30 minutes. Even in a major city slide processing usually involved sending them off for a week, so nothing has really changed there.
As it stands, no one has a crystal ball and we can only wait and see what happens. But it would certainly be odd if, after weathering the downturn and making it thru to when all manufacturers acknowledge a revival of film, Fuji announced they were discontinuing E-6 at the same time Kodak reintroduced it.
As it stands, no one has a crystal ball and we can only wait and see what happens. But it would certainly be odd if, after weathering the downturn and making it thru to when all manufacturers acknowledge a revival of film, Fuji announced they were discontinuing E-6 at the same time Kodak reintroduced it.
E-6 was always a niche market, even in the heyday of film. There was never an E-6 minilab that would process your slides in 30 minutes. Even in a major city slide processing usually involved sending them off for a week, so nothing has really changed there.
I would not be surprised that Kodak has secured a preferred vendor for mail in options of E6.. otherwise launching an new film seems silly, Keeping control of a E6 process requires lots of film and the main reason all the labs dumped the process.
I wouldn't be surprised if it not a private Vendor that is moved into Rochester to do this and maybe a West Coast Vendor.
As it stands, no one has a crystal ball and we can only wait and see what happens. But it would certainly be odd if, after weathering the downturn and making it thru to when all manufacturers acknowledge a revival of film, Fuji announced they were discontinuing E-6 at the same time Kodak reintroduced it.
Don't discount Innoviscoat (AGFA) They have the capability to produce E-6. Plus the Rollei CN200 can be reversal processed to give transparencies. My opinion is the future of film transparencies lies with a film that can be both a negative and a positive, depending on processing method.
Thing is, Fuji seems to follow that 'logic.' Back when the Acros announcement was made, Asahi Shimbun said Fuji's reasoning was that "Demand was limited to pro photographers and hobbyists and they were unable to guarantee sales would cover production costs" (Here's the link for those who read Japanese https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASL466H20L46ULFA02T.html?iref=pc_ss_date)
Though, the end of the article also says "Sales and production of color film will continue" so maybe the writing isn't on the wall for Velvia and Provia quite yet.
At Northeast Photographic we run E6 generally 2x per month.
Huh? Twice monthly?? That's the lowest of any lab I've heard of.
Here close to the big city of Melbourne labs are running E6 6 days a week concurrently with C-41 and its pretty busy. Only one lab though is processing E6 in 4x5 and the now rare 8x10 E6 (Velvia 50).
Huh? Twice monthly?? That's the lowest of any lab I've heard of.
Here close to the big city of Melbourne labs are running E6 6 days a week concurrently with C-41 and its pretty busy. Only one lab though is processing E6 in 4x5 and the now rare 8x10 E6 (Velvia 50).
Further to my post above #35 , I believe Kodak is going to help some lab create a market for mail in to a central location where every day enough film is run to keep the plots correct.
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