KODAK PROFESSIONAL PORTRA 400BW Film discontinued?

I just shot my first roll ever yesterday didn't get it developed yet. But I
will not get my hopes up to like this film too much since it is now
discontinued.
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/profe...21.26.14&lc=en

"Tramp'oline" wrote in
:

I just shot my first roll ever yesterday didn't get it developed yet.
But I will not get my hopes up to like this film too much since it is
now discontinued.
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/profe...s/portraBW/mai
n.jhtml?id=0.1.18.14.21.26.14&lc=en

And their recommendation is not even real B&W film!

Barney

I thought ALL film was being discontinued?

Oh dear.....I feel a troll coming on.

Tramp'oline writes:

I just shot my first roll ever yesterday didn't get it developed yet. But I
will not get my hopes up to like this film too much since it is now
discontinued.

Here in France, it is still available, and distributors assure me that
it has not been discontinued. It's a nice film for certain purposes.

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Barney wrote:
"Tramp'oline" wrote in
:

I just shot my first roll ever yesterday didn't get it developed yet.
But I will not get my hopes up to like this film too much since it is
now discontinued.
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/profe...s/portraBW/mai
n.jhtml?id=0.1.18.14.21.26.14&lc=en

And their recommendation is not even real B&W film!

Kodak could really do with less suicidal management...


Barney

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Sander

+++ Out of cheese error +++

Sander Vesik wrote in message ...
Barney wrote:
"Tramp'oline" wrote in
:

I just shot my first roll ever yesterday didn't get it developed yet.
But I will not get my hopes up to like this film too much since it is
now discontinued.
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/profe...s/portraBW/mai
n.jhtml?id=0.1.18.14.21.26.14&lc=en

And their recommendation is not even real B&W film!

Kodak could really do with less suicidal management...


Even worse, Portra 400UC, is gone. Professional Ultra Color 400 is
supposed to replace it but it's even more contrasty with worse shadow
detail than Portra 400VC. This is starting to go beyond suicidal.

Bob Kirkpatrick wrote:
Sander Vesik wrote in message ...
Barney wrote:
"Tramp'oline" wrote in
:

I just shot my first roll ever yesterday didn't get it developed yet.
But I will not get my hopes up to like this film too much since it is
now discontinued.
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/profe...s/portraBW/mai
n.jhtml?id=0.1.18.14.21.26.14&lc=en

And their recommendation is not even real B&W film!

Kodak could really do with less suicidal management...


Even worse, Portra 400UC, is gone. Professional Ultra Color 400 is
supposed to replace it but it's even more contrasty with worse shadow
detail than Portra 400VC. This is starting to go beyond suicidal.

You can't go much more suicidal than suicidal ;-) Well, you can still buy
Fuji and Agfa. And probably some lesser known brands.

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Sander

+++ Out of cheese error +++

Bob Kirkpatrick writes:

Even worse, Portra 400UC, is gone. Professional Ultra Color 400 is
supposed to replace it but it's even more contrasty with worse shadow
detail than Portra 400VC. This is starting to go beyond suicidal.

I'm still able to find it in France and last I asked (a few months ago)
there were no plans to discontinue it. I'm not sure why France says one
thing and the U.S. says another, although nothing surprises me at Kodak,
except intelligence.

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Bob Kirkpatrick wrote:

Even worse, Portra 400UC, is gone. Professional Ultra Color 400 is
supposed to replace it but it's even more contrasty with worse shadow
detail than Portra 400VC. This is starting to go beyond suicidal.

Did you make these judgements about UC400's contrast and shadow detail
based on scans, densitometer measuring the negatives, or machine prints?
If machine prints, what type of minilab and which RA-4 paper?

Various Kodak employees insist the emulsion did not change, just the name.