A Sad Day For Color Film Shooters.

[dfoo]

Yes, because there are no new emulsions right? 🙂

 

[photogdave]

When will we accept that it is all eventually going! - and stop the bursts of surprised, righteous indignation when another one is withdrawn?......and as for them withdrawing one - then replacing with a different formula, or name......geeez! - dream on! 🙄

I guess we're all having a consensual hallucination about Provia 400X, Ektar 100, new TMax 100 and 400...

 

[jsrockit]

No use worrying about what isn't available... I'll just find other options. However, film is secondary to digital for me, so who am I to judge. 😉

 

[Andy Kibber]

Not if they buy from Kodak. The economics are fairly straightforward - Fuji drops a few Pro color films, the people who prefer it source it elsewhere. Everyone else who still makes the stuff see an increase in sales. Increased sales = good for the consumer who might be worried about a disappearing product.

Call me crazy, but I think having two choices is better than having one.

 

[sepiareverb]

Call me crazy, but I think having two choices is better than having one.

Precisely. Especially when the choices are different enough to matter.

 

[not_in_good_order]

Their films faster than 160 are grainy as all get out too.

I don't think any of the ISO 160+ Portra films are particularly grainy.

 

[robert blu]

Times are difficult for everyone and if figures of sales are always lower due to the combination of bad echonomic climate and always increasing work made in digital for a company there is no other solution than discontinue what is not making profit. For sure we do not like this kind of decision, but the shareholders want a profit...
robert

 

[Keith]

Times are difficult for everyone and if figures of sales are always lower due to the combination of bad echonomic climate and always increasing work made in digital for a company there is no other solution than discontinue what is not making profit. For sure we do not like this kind of decision, but the shareholders want a profit...
robert

The problem I have with the odd film disappearing of late is inconsequential for me personally because none of them have been my films of choice ... and as said there are other choices available. (currently)

However as much as Pickett harps on at us about his perspective of the situation he's right unfortunately ... it's symptomatic of a product that is declining rapidly in the market place and is being treated as such by the people that manufacture it. Film may not quite be dead but it's certainly in a rather cancerous state and may or may not pull through ... if it survives it appears that it will survive with a much reduced variety of emulsions and types.

 

[Damaso]

Kodak has just released Ektar 100 in 4x5 and 8x10. The death of color film is far, far away...

 

[Pickett Wilson]

But, then, we could venture way back to 2005 again for a bit of history. Sounds oddly familiar:

http://blog.fotolia.com/us/news/kodak-black_and_white.html

 

[bwcolor]

I suspect that high speed color film will be off the mass market in short order. This segment of photography is rapidly becoming digital only and the digital market is working hard to improve high ISO sensor technology. So, I will let one of my favorite color films go and move on.

 

[Juan Valdenebro]

Kodak has just released Ektar 100 in 4x5 and 8x10. The death of color film is far, far away...

Dámaso, what a precious photograph!

Cheers,

Juan

 

[youngmrcurtis]

I'm one of the poor unfortunately who shoots almost exclusively in 160C and 800Z for colour. I'm going to give the portra alternatives a go, so on the plus side, that will for a bit at least, motivate me to go out and shoot more.

 

[migtex]

90% of my color film is the Fuji 160c... looks that I have to stock...