Kodak Bets On FILM ""You come back in 10 years, there will be a film business here"

[los]

i've had a film camera always. i think the pro film stock prices are reasonable. it's printing film that is too expensive for me. i print at A&I in LA, and they do a good job with good instruction. but here's the deal:

a fiber 5x7 print is $15
an inkjet 16x20 at costco is $7 (epson wide format printer)

i still shoot film, but shoot more digital because i know i can print more.

(i don't like the noritsu or frontier scans, and it's an added cost for no good reason. drum scans start at $25 per image at my lab.)

 

[wlewisiii]

Both Kodak and Fuji have stated that they will support film as long as there are cameras for it.

The problem for me, Tom, is that I find such a statement utterly unbelievable from Kodak due to the quarterly demands of wall street whereas it's really quite easy to believe from Fuji due to a japanese word that I've usually seen romanized as Giri.

Now, if cinema gives us an out, all the better. Hip, hip, hooray!!! But I still expect those rat bast*rds in Rochester to find several more ways to f*ck all of us film shooters all as hard as they possibly can. I have always prefered film & if worst comes while my lungs are still filtering air, I'll find a way to coat (wet or dry) glass plates. In the meantime, Kodak has a long way to go to get any belief back from me.

William

 

[Al Kaplan]

Yeah, you can't trust Kodak! They stopped making film packs a couple of decades ago, so now I gotta shoot sheet film in my Speed Graphic and in order to use my 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 Graflex SLR I have to cut 5x7 film in half and trim it to size IN THE DARK, but I think Ilford still makes that size.

 

[FA Limited]

At least some stores in the US carry it. Canada with 34 million people hasn't seemed to gotten Kodak's attention for Ektar yet.

vistek and henry's have it on their site but not available yet. good price tho