Film is made in something like 40 inch wide rolls, then slit down to various
sizes. That being the case it is likely that other sizes of film will remain
available. In fact it is somewhat easier to get odd-ball sizes of film today
than it was 10 years ago. Now different emulsions will disappear as it will
become uneconomical to produce emulsion that they can not sell a run of before
it is out of date, but the popular stuff will still be available in most sizes.
A point of interest was Kodaks anouncement that their sheet film would no
longer be available in 25 and 100 sheet packs, but only 50 sheet packs. That
was an attempt to reduce the number of packages Kodak and dealers whould have
to stock.
At the time I felt that killing the 25 sheet package, especially of Tri-X, was
suicidal because one the biggest customers was college students. Apparently I
was right about that because I notice the 25 sheet package of Tri-X is once
again available.
graywolf
http://www.graywolfphoto.com
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John Forbes wrote:
I would guess that 35mm b&w will outlive anything else. The darkroom
process is something that many photographers don't want to give up, and
there may be enough of them to keep b&w film alive almost indefinitely.
It is unlikely to be cost-effective to make colour film just for MF and
LF cameras, and those formats, if they survive, will do so by hanging
onto the coat-tails of the b&w 35mm chaps.
John
On Sat, 28 May 2005 13:04:54 +0100, DagT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As long as analog MF and LF is and will be a lot cheaper than its
digital counterparts someone will make film. My guess is that Ilford
has a good position in that market.
DagT
P� 28. mai. 2005 kl. 04.21 skrev Herb Chong:
sad, but not a surprise except to those with blinders on. Ilford is
next.
Herb....
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