Popular Science: Photo tour of Kodak Ektachrome factory today

Nice to see. Although EKtachrome public release is delayed, lately been seeing a lot of promotional activity -- good.


A friend sent me a Podcast interview where they talked about B38 and some details of production, and this is fantastic to picture what was talked. In reality there is such complexity on the production of film.

https://studioc41.net/2018/06/10/interview-kodak/
 
Very interesting article. But it stinks that they used expired film for their scanned film image of the building exterior to compare to one from a digital camera file, and then retouched the film scan to change colour saturation levels! What on earth were they thinking? What did they do to the digital file's levels? Both images look really lousy. This is what happens when non photographers do an article on photography. The rest of the article's photos look like good stock photos from Kodak's files, and they look professionally made.
 
Each batch is 600,000 rolls. I don’t have an opinion, but do have some concerns, wondering if they will manage to sell through the first batch. 300 people online here now, most ever online here at one time was 5,600 (claimed). Not sure all of them had projectors. Sure, there’s other forums. DPR. Just saying.

We’ll see.
 
Larry Cloetta said:
Each batch is 600,000 rolls. I don’t have an opinion, but do have some concerns, wondering if they will manage to sell through the first batch. 300 people online here now, most ever online here at one time was 5,600 (claimed). Not sure all of them had projectors. Sure, there’s other forums. DPR. Just saying.
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Remember that some significant portion of the batch is going to be slit for Super8.
 
ptpdprinter said:
Remember that some significant portion of the batch is going to be slit for Super8.
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Ah yes, another market that’s about to come roaring back, Super 8. Now that everybody including Steven Soderburgh can shoot a movie (“Unsane”) using an iphone.
And something you do need a projector for.
Listening for the Super 8 clamoring, but......crickets.

But, yes, some will be slit for Super 8.

A bit Debbie Downer-ish, I know. I truly wish them well, but we’ll see.
 
Timing is everything

Timing is everything

With Fuji exiting the transparency film business I expect Ektachrome will be a sustainable product for Kodak.

Chris
 
I'm not so patiently waiting for it. What the heck, the most innovative film company in the history of the planet, and it is taking them....years....?

But when it comes out, I'm going to shoot the heck out of it, unless I find a reason not to. Certainly the quality of "impossible" projects is so lacking it's not funny. I want to shoot world-class film, not retro-hipster-bs.
 
dmr said:
I shiver with antici ... ... ... {say it} PATION! :)

I'm most definitely going to try it and I will probably order some E6 chemistry and process it myself. :)
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E chemistry...

If I like it as much as I hope... I will need to research all that it takes to develop it myself. Hmmmm.
 
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