The problem is what kind of film will Kodak be making? No reversal print stocks. No fast color reversal stocks. No Plus-X anything.
Soon, no 35mm Estar based color interneg stock with remjet backing (meaning no blow-up internegs from 16mm reversal originals). But lots of crappy inkjet printers. That's what happens when Kodak hires a CEO who used to work at HP on inkjet printers. They might as well make shoes -- they know as much about that. Film cameras are now very affordable. There are still some labs left. But we no longer have the stocks we need -- it will all be a compromise. Kodak would love to make one bland color negative stock that is designed to be manipulated in post (DI) and one intermediate stock for digital output and one print stock. I have a running bet with a friend that the next thing we will hear from Kodak is that B&W positive stock is being discontinued because it's fine to print B&W negs onto color positive stock. Right. Interestingly, Fuji may come to the rescue -- they are test marketing 35mm B&W positive stock in the US. Call Fuji and ask for other stocks! Jeff "dreads the yellow nightmare" Kreines On Oct 12, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Mark Toscano wrote: > I like the Kodak rep quote, if it's to be trusted: > > Eastman Kodak, Chris Johnson, Director of New Business Development, > Entertainment Imaging, counters that "I don't see a time when Kodak stops > making film stock," noting the year-on-year growth in 65mm film and > popularity of Super 8mm. "We still make billions of linear feet of film," he > says. "Over the horizon as far as we can see, we'll be making billions of > feet of film." >
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