kodak sells ccd sensor technology

[Trius]

That building is on the route I used to take home to the house I owned when I worked for Xerox. I should take a pic with my CCD sensor in my (old) Oly C5050 ... made by Kodak. Not sure I would have predicted X would outlast EK.

I'm buying Ilford film now.

 

[Keith]

That building is on the route I used to take home to the house I owned when I worked for Xerox. I should take a pic with my CCD sensor in my (old) Oly C5050 ... made by Kodak. Not sure I would have predicted X would outlast EK.

I'm buying Ilford film now.

+1 ... I think quite a few of us are now prepared to wave farewell to EK.

 

[Paddy C]

+1 ... I think quite a few of us are now prepared to wave farewell to EK.

I've never been concerned with black and white (assuming I continue to shoot film). Ilford makes stuff I like. I am concerned with colour. The new Portra films are wonderful and I have little confidence in Fuji (but could easily be happy using Fuji).

 

[Trius]

EK will continue colour films as long as the film industry buys them. After that, it's lights out.

 

[Nikon Bob]

When you start chuckin' furniture into the fireplace to keep the fire burnin' because you can't afford to go out and buy firewood, it's never a good sign. Sooner or later you run out of furniture.

Don't worry they know what they are doing. There will be new varieties of movie and still film to compensate for all the burnt furniture.

Bob

 

[Trius]

All this said, Platinum is no slouch. It could be worse vis-a-vis CCD.

 

[rbiemer]

I am likely wrong about this but: I thought their losses were from the "digital" part of their business? And if so, wouldn't it make sense to get rid of those parts?
Rob

 

[celluloidprop]

On a slightly related matter.... I hope Leica can talk Sigma into letting them use that new Foveon sensor in a future M10. That would be one heck of a combo, if Sigma/Foveon has the micro lens know how to make it fly.

And now, back to our Kodak wake 🙁

Will never, in a million years, happen. Even if Foveon sensors were wonder tech, Leica has to go CMOS/CCD to appear 'professional' - and the reality of the times is that high-ISO performance is what the market wants anyway.

The M10 will be a CMOS sensor.

 

[Keith]

There's a fair few companies out there producing black and white film that show no interest at all in colour. I have used colour and went to the trouble of processing it at home but really can't be bothered now. Digital does colour very accurately and grain has never been something that really adds to a colour image ... well not for me personally! At ten dollars per roll I can live without Portra as nice as it may be.

Like Earl says ... the instant the movei industry stops wanting colour film it's all over for colour film still shooters.

Which is sad and not to be celebrated in any way and doesn't change the fact that Kodak is hasty in getting rid of it's sensor technology! 🙁

 

[Noll]

EK will continue colour films as long as the film industry buys them. After that, it's lights out.

From what I understand, the movie industry uses different emulsions and chemistry than what your typical consumer uses, so I can't quite grasp why this argument would be true.

Certainly, not many movies are made using, say, Ektachrome or Velvia, yet these emulsions still exist and must produce a small profit for their makers otherwise they wouldn't exist.

Presumably then, the movie industry is what keeps the production lines running in-between runs of consumer film?

 

[Trius]

A lot of the underlying technology from movie emulsions is used for still film formulations. Where do you think new-ish emulsions such as Ektar 100, Portra 160 and even TMY-2 have come from?

 

[Keith]

On the bright side we can expect to see Freestyle with a virtually unlimited supply of generic (not Kodak of course) Arista Premium colour film.

Let's think positively here! 😀

 

[Trius]

Keith to the rescue!

 

[Jack Conrad]

They should simply return to their roots, open factories in the US and make super fine products for all the millions of technologically disaffected (and cheap) film photographers that are inevitable in the coming brave new future. 😀

 

[Trius]

Way cool pic!

 

[Tom Niblick]

The Great Yellow Father helped out with film and paper way back 40 plus years ago when I was in college. He gave me a film processor when I opened my first business and a plate processor a year later. Of course, I've used (literally) tons of Kodak film and plates over the years. However, since going digital I must confess having abandoned him more than a decade ago. Still, I will always have fond memories of the hundreds of books, posters and ads we have created together... not to mention the tens of thousands of photos.

Sniff...

 

[rbiemer]

Jack, the Retina was made in Germany...

But if they are selling off the "furniture", maybe RFF could buy Ektar? There are 45,000 registered members here and if we each kicked in about $450, that would be a bit over $20 million...
Trius, you're in Rochester, would you mind organizing this? 😀
Rob

 

[dallard]

I'm sure that tomorrow we'll find out that Kodak has spent the money made from selling the CCD and used it to buy some magic beans.

 

[Trius]

Rob: Absolutely. I suggest a kick-off dinner with you as chef, me as sommelier ... this can work.

 

[rbiemer]

Rob: Absolutely. I suggest a kick-off dinner with you as chef, me as sommelier ... this can work.

Can we fit every one into the Redwings' stadium?

Gotta pour enough so their inhibitions are down but not so much that they can't find their checkbooks!

Rob