I agree that if an emulsion is manufactured, it will be sold in whatever
sizes people want (within reason). I doubt that in future the MF/LF
market will be sufficient on its own to make film production worthwhile.
However, if there is still an economically viable market for 35mm film,
then MF/LF users will be provided for.
I do believe that colour film will disappear completely. It make take
five or ten years, but I just can't see how it can be viable in the long
term. As Herb pointed out, who wants to invest in a declining market?
Those who did the buy-outs at Agfa and Ilford were business managers who
knew nothing else. They weren't businessmen, or entrepreneurs, and they
paid the price.
I don't think the LP business is a good analogy. Pressing a piece of
vinyl is much easier than running a film production line, and very small
production runs are quite viable.
John
On Sat, 28 May 2005 19:20:16 +0100, Graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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they can not sell a run of before it is out of date, but the popular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
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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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