Kodak selling itself off?

[ray*j*gun]

I need the 3D movie experience like I need a hole in the head ... give me a good old Hollywood black and white classic any day! 😛

My feelings exactly! 3D is so distracting that I often lose track of......................what was I saying?😱

 

[dave lackey]

Ha, ha...
Just get out and actually expose a lot of frames! That is exactly what I am doing and it beats the hell out of typing posts like this on a forum.😛

Funny how photographers have lamented the perceived demise of film for the last 10 years but they themselves use less of the medium. What was that Pogo said about meeting the enemy...us?😀

 

[Thardy]

When you consider the state of the US economy it's not surprising that their backs are now well and truly to the wall.

It's a shame though because you can't really separate the words 'Kodak' and 'photgraphy' in most people's minds ... unless they've been hiding under a rock for the last hundred years! 😀

You mean the world economy.

 

[Thardy]

And nobody gives a hang about film anymore.

 

[hipsterdufus]

I'm not worried. I'll keep photographing no matter the medium or the company producing that medium. However, I do wish the best to all Kodak employees.

 

[splitimageview]

Looks to me like they can be profitable. They are still just living on yesterday's overhead. What is the delay here?? If I were a stockholder I wouldn't be happy with current management.

 

[Keith]

You mean the world economy.

To a point ... we 'down under' seemed to have escaped a lot of the fallout for some reason. Though I suspect it's only a matter of time before the recources bubble bursts!

 

[Thardy]

To a point ... we 'down under' seemed to have escaped a lot of the fallout for some reason. Though I suspect it's only a matter of time before the recources bubble bursts!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/globalrecession

 

[Thardy]

To a point ... we 'down under' seemed to have escaped a lot of the fallout for some reason. Though I suspect it's only a matter of time before the recources bubble bursts!

http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/stockmarket/australian-stock-market-outlook-for-2011/


Many more of these types of forecasts out there. Sorry.

 

[Neare]

It's Fujifilm vs. Kodak
He who holds on longest is king.

 

[Thardy]

They are re-releasing Top Gun in 3D. It has probably just begun. Another marketing tool to get people in the theater.

I think the 3D movie thing comes in spurts. I was at a small trade show a few years ago when Panasonic introduced 3D TV. I need aspirin just thinking about the headache it would give me.

 

[segedi]

Dammit... I'll miss Ektar and the new Portras ... time to stock up!

 

[unixrevolution]

It's Fujifilm vs. Kodak
He who holds on longest is king.

Between those two, I think Fuji is going to do it, since their digital AND film products are so strong.

That said, I am an avowed Kodak fan, of both their film and their film cameras of old. I hope they can manage to hang on.

I've just gotten into film, actually...And every day it seems a new film product is discontinued. I feel like I've just found a wonderful world hidden just below the surface of the grey, boring world I was born to, and just as I take a deep breath of the fresh, clean air, seat my bare feet into the deep, lush grass, and take an awestruck look at the color and splendor around me, it starts to crumble and die before my very eyes.

 

[sanmich]

I need the 3D movie experience like I need a hole in the head ... give me a good old Hollywood black and white classic any day! 😛

Common, Keith

Imagine "Casablanca" or "The third man" in color and 3D.
THAT would have been movies...
Now of course, if I had to look at "Avatar" in 2D B+W, I would desperately need the proverbial hole in the head..

 

[Thardy]

Between those two, I think Fuji is going to do it, since their digital AND film products are so strong.

That said, I am an avowed Kodak fan, of both their film and their film cameras of old. I hope they can manage to hang on.

I've just gotten into film, actually...And every day it seems a new film product is discontinued. I feel like I've just found a wonderful world hidden just below the surface of the grey, boring world I was born to, and just as I take a deep breath of the fresh, clean air, seat my bare feet into the deep, lush grass, and take an awestruck look at the color and splendor around me, it starts to crumble and die before my very eyes.

The whole thing kind of stinks. I was reminded of that last night when I pondered the dearth of good new 35mm film scanners.

 

[bwcolor]

If there is money to be made in producing film, then someone will do it. It looks like it will be an expensive niche product produced by much smaller entities... Eventually, even Fujifilm might just spin off the film division and concentrate on the future. The downside is that we may be in the last days of new film products.

 

[Rayt]

The whole thing kind of stinks. I was reminded of that last night when I pondered the dearth of good new 35mm film scanners.

Me too. The scanner really is the weak link for people who scan for inkjet output. Flat bed is good for MF but it is too much of a compromise with 135. At least without Kodak there is still Ilford, Fuji, Foma, Efke, Adox, and Shanghai.

 

[charjohncarter]

I think 3D fad is over, isn't it?

We tried it once before and it didn't last.

 

[user237428934]

They are re-releasing Top Gun in 3D. It has probably just begun. Another marketing tool to get people in the theater.

But in this case marketing is telling the truth. For most movies I watched, 3D added something to the movie. There was one where 2D would have been ok too. I like 3D movies but only in a real movie theater.

 

[paulfish4570]

the perceived death of film does not bother me, but the idea than 35mm scanning may be threatened does bother me ...