@Mackinaw, Hmmm, I can see and accept sarcasm, but I'm not sure 'a troll is a troll' and 'op reported' are really just sarcasm.
It has only been 11 hrs since the OP's second post. Maybe the OP has other things to do and maybe even has a life away from this forum, and so hasn't had time to get the 'evidence'. Perhaps the OP didn't think to add any 'evidence' to the original post, as the OP thought other members would've already heard the rumour and thus already seen some 'evidence'? I think people should be allowed more time before other members start getting a bit 'miffed' with any lack of 'evidence'.
In the past when rumours of various films pending discontinuance have occurred, it's had a disruptive influence in various ways. The ripple effect for want of a better term.
Reala 100 is a case in point. Yes, it's been discontinued for a few years now. But a couple of years before this happened, there was a great deal of ill informed speculation and "information" circulating the web to the effect that Fuji had stopped making it. When or how this started I don't know. I suspect nobody really does, for sure.
What I
do know is that nobody benefited from it (well, with the possible exception of Kodak, arguably, when a percentage of users switched to Portra stocks). Fuji certainly didn't. But it caused a "crisis of confidence" in the future of that particular film. Photographers who used it either stocked up or gave up and switched to something else. A couple of years or so later, Fuji did indeed cease manufacture of it. Even though it had been one of their most popular C-41 films.
It would be drawing a very long bow, indeed, to suggest that the online rumour mill was responsible for Fuji's decision to stop the film. And I'm not saying it was. What I
am certain of, however is that the negative buzz around Reala did its prospects no good in the long run. And did the worldwide community of photographers who still image with film no favours either by doing absolutely nothing to encourage people to continue using what was a very decent colour negative film. As I said in post number 3 in this thread:
"I personally think your post is very inflammatory and altogether unhelpful to anyone with an interest in imaging with film. Speculation and rumour-mongering does not really help anybody in any way."
I've mentioned all of the above for one reason. It offers
context as to how the original commenter's vague, unresearched, initial post is likely to be received by some film photographers, who are
sick to death of people who either don't care, ought to know better, or are possibly, even, downright mischievous, casting doubt and uncertainty over the future of film. It's not dead, it never was, after years of significant decline there has in fact been renewed interest and increased sales over the last 18 months. In spite of this, the vacuous, gormless, lacking in gumption and just plain stupid among us, persist, at the slightest possible opportunity, in reeling out the "Has xxx film been discontinued?" line, without, in most cases, the slightest shred of factual basis for it.
You say: "
Perhaps the OP didn't think to add any 'evidence' to the original post"
Well he Goddam ought to think about the effects that that sort of uninformed negativity has had, and can have, on confidence in product availability.
You think: "
...people should be allowed more time before other members start getting a bit 'miffed' with any lack of 'evidence".
I think: people should spend 30 seconds searching Google, and try to enlighten themselves, before posting such damnfool stupid questions on the net and, potentially, start panicking Tri-X users around the world for no reason whatsoever, with absolutely nothing in the way of substance to back it up.
Yes, I'm fed up. Yes, I'm pissed. Yes,
I'm not being very friendly. Well, I love film photography. And I'm sick of clueless ****wits bogging its future down with stupid innuendo. If you disagree with that, well, I'm sorry but I am all out of ****s. I have none left to give.
