--- Henry Posner/B&H Photo-Video
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

People who own
> Endeavors will continue to 
> buy film for them, (which means processors will
> continue to use 
> developing/printing hardware) but as a format, I'd
> bet my rent money on 
> another horse.

Maybe now Kodak will give us what they should have
done in the first place:  The features of APS in a
full 35mm format.  Even better would be a super-35,
with no sprocket holes, allowing the frame to be close
to the full 35mm width of the film.  (With optical
film advance, getting rid of the sprocket holes should
be easy.)  Worst case, just have 1 hole per frame,
aligned with the blank space between frames, like the
old 126 film did.

The drawback to a "super" 35 is that all our expensive
scanners would chop off part of the frame, but it
might be a worthwhile trade-off.  And Kodak would love
it:  they could sell yet another generation of
processing equipment to millions of 1 hr. labs.

But I'm dreaming.  With the strides that digital is
making, I can't see Kodak and the camera manufacturers
making the investment to tool up for a whole new
system.  I suspect the current formats are the last
film formats we'll see, excepting special uses.


=====
Bob Meyer
Life is uncertain.  Eat dessert first.

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