Harman did not purchase Ilford. After the Insolvency of Ilford the british part of the company was bought up by several former managers, who formed Harman by this.
The Harman plant is located on ground to be restructured.
Can you expand on this? I am not fully up to date on industry news (all I know is Harman purchased Ilford).
Ilford does not own the land that their factory and offices sits on. They lease it and it expires in 7 years. By not owning their land, Ilford does not control their own destiny. The owner does and can sell it out from under Ilford. Hopefully that does not happen.
Harman did not purchase Ilford. After the Insolvency of Ilford the british part of the company was bought up by several former managers, who formed Harman by this.
The Harman plant is located on ground to be restructured.
You need to start a new thread with those off topic remarks.I doubt if archival matters to many, but in any case, is a digital print archival? Is a digital file archival?
"Ascetic". That's funny!.
Digital is an artificial facsimile that can never truly match the ascetic quality of film!
You need to start a new thread with those off topic remarks.
To finance the management buy out (MBO) in 2005 Ilford UK management sold the land to a private company (Isola Investments Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Perviaz Naviede Family Trust - http://www.whoarewe.com/about-the-pervaiz-naviede-family-trust/). Isola tried to get planning on the site for residential development in 2014, whilst retaining a reduced 'right sized' campus for Ilford (c 20% of the 40 acre site). The local authority refused consent and Isola/agents also lost an appeal to the UK government planning inspectorate, determined in 2016 , mainly because the land at Mobberley is in the Manchester Airport flight path and the noise levels are such that it is considered unsuited to new residential development under current rules (despite being surrounded on 2 sides by existing dwellings). Furthermore in the UK a business owner generally has the right to renewal of their lease (unless they expressly gave up that right at the start of the tenanacy) and can apply to the courts for a new lease if neccessary. Given all plans have thus far accomodated Ilford it seems unlikely that their lease would not be renewed, and this is no doubt something that Pemberstone Ventures ltd (a private investment company) considered when they acquired Harman Technology (the MBO) in 2015. On the positive front Pemberstone didn't buy the business for the land, the fate of many historic companies that are cash poor but sit on land with high residential values. Hopefully that provides some comfort that Ilford will still be around for some time to come providing we keep buying their film and paper of course. Anyway back to colour film...unfortunately not something we can rely on ilford for...Ilford does not own the land that their factory and offices sits on. They lease it and it expires in 7 years. By not owning their land, Ilford does not control their own destiny. The owner does and can sell it out from under Ilford. Hopefully that does not happen.
Harman did not purchase Ilford. After the Insolvency of Ilford the british part of the company was bought up by several former managers, who formed Harman by this.
The Harman plant is located on ground to be restructured.
To finance the management buy out (MBO) in 2005 Ilford UK management sold the land to a private company (Isola Investments Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Perviaz Naviede Family Trust - http://www.whoarewe.com/about-the-pervaiz-naviede-family-trust/). Isola tried to get planning on the site for residential development in 2014, whilst retaining a reduced 'right sized' campus for Ilford (c 20% of the 40 acre site). The local authority refused consent and Isola/agents also lost an appeal to the UK government planning inspectorate, determined in 2016 , mainly because the land at Mobberley is in the Manchester Airport flight path and the noise levels are such that it is considered unsuited to new residential development under current rules (despite being surrounded on 2 sides by existing dwellings). Furthermore in the UK a business owner generally has the right to renewal of their lease (unless they expressly gave up that right at the start of the tenanacy) and can apply to the courts for a new lease if neccessary. Given all plans have thus far accomodated Ilford it seems unlikely that their lease would not be renewed, and this is no doubt something that Pemberstone Ventures ltd (a private investment company) considered when they acquired Harman Technology (the MBO) in 2015. On the positive front Pemberstone didn't buy the business for the land, the fate of many historic companies that are cash poor but sit on land with high residential values. Hopefully that provides some comfort that Ilford will still be around for some time to come providing we keep buying their film and paper of course. Anyway back to colour film...unfortunately not something we can rely on ilford for...
Back in the 1980's I shot Kodak color film. Mostly ASA 100. Later ISO 200 became as good as the former 100. Then ISO 400 was almost as good as the former 100.
In the 1990's I saw a lot of Fujifilm color on the market. In 100, 200 and 400. A little later came Xtra 400.
You know what? I can still buy Kodak Gold 200, 400 and Fuji 200, 400. So it's basically the same to me.
I admit, the cheaper films like Reala and Gold are no longer available in 120 size so we have to buy the pricier Ektar, Portra and Pro 400H for those cameras.
But there is plenty of color film still around.
Fingers crossed for EktarThe day is coming soon where we will have only one color film available ... and we will all be damned grateful to have it.
Fuji Xtra 400 ?The day is coming soon where we will have only one color film available ... and we will all be damned grateful to have it.
te way things seem to be going with Fuji I think it will be a kodak film,
Some eastern European or Asian company will buy the remnants of Kodak and produce Color Plus 200 in a back alley 'factory'. Or it could be in Brazil..we will see....
Kodachrome, what else?We Apuggers together long could have bought a whole plant. But of course we never would be able to agree on what to produce...
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