Well, it goes something like this. You know how they make some beer seasonally? Like October dark beer, and so on. Some beers are made all the time, while some are made from time to time. Maybe they could make film like that.
What would be wrong with running a batch of Plus-X for a few weeks. Customers have to grab it when they can. Perhaps we could pre-order it, and the size of the run could depend on the orders placed at the time. If you don't get your order in, you have to wait until the next batch.
When the Plus-X run is over, then they could run Panatomic-X. And how about an occasional run of Verichrome Pan? Remember it? It was a good film!
It has been said that once the production of a film is discontinued, it's hard to make it exactly the same again when going back into production. Maybe so, but Efke/Agfa/Adox seem to have managed, and I'm sure Kodak could if anyone could.
And If the film comes out a little different each time, maybe that's not so bad. I like George DeBoeuf Beaujolais Village. The 2012 may not be the same as the 2011, but it's close enough, and I still buy it. And if the 2013 "vintage" Plus-X has a subtly different palette than the 2006, we'll all buy it just so we see how it's different--or isn't different.
So what do you think?
