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A new film from Kodak.
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A new film from Kodak.
On 2008-09-09 20:19:52 -0400, John J said:
Keith Tapscott. wrote: http://tinyurl.com/6coc29 high saturation and ultra-vivid colour, Interesting. So Kodak has made a competitor to the Japanese "high saturation and ultra-vivid color" film, such as Velvia. So Kodak is still playing the film market. I wish them the best of luck. It could be good for the rest of us. I won't be buying any unless they offer it in formats larger than 35mm, but I am a happy minority. Thanks for the link! Not exactly a competitor to Velvia. Velvia is a slide film. -- Michael |
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A new film from Kodak.
Michael wrote:
On 2008-09-09 20:19:52 -0400, John J said: So Kodak is still playing the film market. I wish them the best of luck. It could be good for the rest of us. I won't be buying any unless they offer it in formats larger than 35mm, but I am a happy minority. Thanks for the link! Not exactly a competitor to Velvia. Velvia is a slide film. Ah! Thank you for the correction. I hope they make it in 120. |
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A new film from Kodak.
On 2008-09-26 05:12:35 -0400, Peter said:
On Sep 13, 6:02*am, Michael wrote: On 2008-09-10 00:59:02 -0400, (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) said: Jean-David Beyer wrote: They did; it was Kodak Ektar 25, only in 35mm. I asked their salesman at a photo show when they would be making the stuff in 4x5 hand he said nev er. He said that Vericolor whatever was sharp enough for that. IMHO Ektar 25mm was the best color film ever made. The results were as good as Kodachrome and by the time it came out Kodachrome had to be "sent away" for processing, while any one hour lab could process Ektar 25. Kodak claimed that the technology behind Ektar 25 was incorporated into their later ISO 100 color negative film and has found its way into all of their current offerings. It may be so, but none of them had the "loo k". Even in 35mm Ektar 25 never sold enough to a viable product, which is w hy it never made it to larger formats. Wasn't there also an Ektar 100? I seem to remember it existed, but did not look as good. Geoff. I loved Ektar 25. I will buy the 100 for my "new" Nikon F as soon as it is available. If it comes out in 120/220 I will buy some for my Pentzx 6x7 -- Michael * I visited one of the Kodak stands at Photokina Wednesday. I asked if they planned to supply Ektar 100 in roll film. The first person I asked assured me that of course they did, and if I went to speak to their expert she would give me a roll. It was an offer I could not refuse. She immediately gave me a roll of 35mm. I thanked her and kept the roll, but said that what I really wanted was to know if the film would be available in roll film, specifically 120 or 220. She said, it certainly would not. She seemed to be a German speaker with significant trouble with English, so I take that answer as less than apodictic certainty and subject to confirmation. She, at least, was quite sure of her answer and did indeed seem to know quite a bit about Kodak's films. When I checked Kodak's website a week or so ago it listed Ektar 100, claimed it was a direct (but faster) descendant of Ektar 25, and listed 35mm as the only format. But it did not EXCLUDE 120/220 as a future product. -- Michael |
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A new film from Kodak.
Michael schrieb:
On 2008-09-26 05:12:35 -0400, Peter said: On Sep 13, 6:02*am, Michael wrote: She immediately gave me a roll of 35mm. I thanked her and kept the roll, but said that what I really wanted was to know if the film would be available in roll film, specifically 120 or 220. She said, it certainly would not. She seemed to be a German speaker with significant trouble with English, so I take that answer as less than apodictic certainty and subject to confirmation. She, at least, was quite sure of her answer and did indeed seem to know quite a bit about Kodak's films. I guess I spoke to the same representative - in German. She knew what she was talking about. When I checked Kodak's website a week or so ago it listed Ektar 100, claimed it was a direct (but faster) descendant of Ektar 25, and listed 35mm as the only format. The lady at the Kodak film booth told me that this Ektar 100 is a derivative of their current cine film stock and thus not available in size 120 or bigger. The sample films they handed out in Cologne are pre-production, made under a large hurry and the final film in mass production may in fact not be identical to the "Photokina Ektar". The hurry was so big that they didn´t have the time to finish large prints taken with Ektar 100 - all they were able to show to me were a few offset printed snapshots and inkjet prints. :-/ Gruss, Roman -- "An MDCCCXII/Mémorable par la campagne contre les Russes/ Sous le préfectura de Jules Doazan." "Vu et approuvé par nous commandant russe de la ville de Coblentz/ le 1er janvier 1814." |
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A new film from Kodak.
On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:01:40 -0400, Michael
wrote: When I checked Kodak's website a week or so ago it listed Ektar 100, claimed it was a direct (but faster) descendant of Ektar 25, and listed 35mm as the only format. For those of us with Oldtimerz, thankfully I have files going back to the mid-90s, where old film notes still lurk. The high grain CN film that superceded Ektar was called Royal Gold. It was pricy and came in ISOs of 25, 100, 400 and 1000 (maybe 200, too). I shot it when I could afford it. JJ |
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A new film from Kodak.
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
wrote: For those of us with Oldtimerz, thankfully I have files going back to the mid-90s, where old film notes still lurk. That makes you a "teenager" by most of our standards. Old enough to remember when film was still the only way to go, but too young to remember it at it's peak. You're probably too young to remember the days you could walk into a drugstore and pick the film you wanted based on grain, contrast, and speed. A well stocked camera store could literally have 10 or more different black and white films each with its own "look". I guess I should start thinking of myself as an old-timer. I remember when D-76 and such came in metal cans, when Sodium Sulphite and stuff came in glass bottles, when you could get any of these things from Fishkin Brothers in a near-by town (now out of business), when you had a choice of two good photo labs in the next town (now both out of business) that would process C-22, C-41, K-12, K-14 (I think it was) as well as black and white, and so on. Now if I do not process myself, I have to go to a drug-store who send it out somewhere for so-so color negative processing -- that or nothing. Now I must get my film and hardware from B&H, Calumet, and Lens and Repro, which are fine outfits but more inconvenient. Even Zone VI is pretty much gone -- luckily I do not need any more hardware. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 06:05:01 up 22 days, 7:07, 3 users, load average: 4.18, 4.18, 4.11 |
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A new film from Kodak.
Jean-David Beyer writes: I guess I should start thinking of myself as an old-timer. I remember when D-76 and such came in metal cans Ha, I live in Turku, Finland, and we have a store here that sells D-76 in metal cans, and pretty close to 10 different kinds of B&W films in 135 and 120 sizes. I can remember them because the last time I saw them was Tuesday. Does that make me old? |
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A new film from Kodak.
Toni Nikkanen wrote:
Jean-David Beyer writes: I guess I should start thinking of myself as an old-timer. I remember when D-76 and such came in metal cans Ha, I live in Turku, Finland, and we have a store here that sells D-76 in metal cans, and pretty close to 10 different kinds of B&W films in 135 and 120 sizes. I can remember them because the last time I saw them was Tuesday. Does that make me old? Yes; at least, honorarily old. It also makes your photo store old. I think Kodak stopped putting developers in metal cans in the very early 1970s, so your stuff, if Kodak, is very old. Since they were sealed in cans, they may still be good. I forgot: the film came in metal cans with a screw-cap on them, with a trace of rubber-like compound where the cap touched the top of the can. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 07:30:01 up 22 days, 8:32, 3 users, load average: 4.10, 4.29, 4.72 |
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