> As I told our Kodak rep in Tampa after he discontinued 20 years of stock > sponsorship ? about 1,000 feet a year of Tri-X and 250D ? he said, ?I can?t > give it away anymore. Film is hot again.? I said, ?And who do you have to > thank for that? Could it be all of us who kept teaching it and pulling > equipment and prints out of dumpsters for decades?? He said, ?Touch?,? but > never re-upped the sponsorship.
Back when Kodak was making vast amounts of film, it wasn't unusual for them to be stuck with nonconforming stock that they couldn't sell, so they would rebadge them with an SO number and donate them to schools. For example, SO-898 was 7298 with something wrong with it.... sometimes scratches that were out of the frame or uneven emulsion or something else. I think that has pretty much evaporated now that Kodak is doing so little production. Yes, things are looking better but I think the nonstandard stock we used to get free or cheaply is gone. Then again, I remember ECO being $11.54/100 ft. roll list price too. --scott -- Frameworks mailing list [email protected] https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org
