The rest of the slide ecosystem is almost gone too. Ever tried to find a
slide projector for sale new? My wife occasionally gives horticulture
talks and has a couple of dozen preloaded carousels of slides, so I'm
the official maintainer of our two very cranky Kodak Carousel
projectors. Sometimes we borrow one from our neighbor when I can't get
either of ours to advance. Kodak was kind enough to put PDFs of the
service manuals up on their site, so I have a fighting chance. But parts
are drying up, and bulbs are expensive as hell.
One of these days it'll be a new LCD projector and days of slide
scanning. :-(
-bmw
On 11-03-15 5:58 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
E-6 Slide film can be processed at home, but if slide film is
discontinued, I doubt very much that chemicals to process it will be
available commercially either. I might take a shot at making my own
B&W chemicals but Color? I've processed small batches of E-6. I'd
not be happy trying to make the chemicals before I processed it.
Sadly I kind of thought slide film would last longer. You really
can't duplicate some of the uses for slides for high projected images
at any kind of reasonable price in digital. Sure you can get a
digital projector and display pretty good quality images, but a well
exposed and processed 35mm slide in a fairly cheap projector will
still blow away any but the most expensive digital projection system
for image quality. If you only need to project slides occasionally
it's a no brainer. I guess that option will soon be no more.
On 3/15/2011 5:32 PM, Thibouille wrote:
Maybe someone could check if he has insider informations ?
My reseller told me that although not official yet, Fuji is stopping
Neopan 400/1600 (100 still around for now).
Fuji APS-C (ouch, I meant APS) film is dead. Kodak still left with APS
but at about 10 euros per film (!!) (or was that the opposite?).
Almost all slides film is going dodo as well.
If anyone needs such film, it may be a good idea to grab a bunch of'em.
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