Pragmatically, we have to work around these growing limitations. I recently acquired some Agfa ST8 ortho sound recording film, which I'm using to make short, hi-con negative films with! Who knows what can be done with "one bland color negative stock"?
NIcky Hamlyn. -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Kreines <[email protected]> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:35 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Article: The Last film camera 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." _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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