Re: Interesting new book for film fans
From: "P. J. Alling" My take. Someone at Kodak doesn't think the this technology will be maintained much longer. But it may have to be reproduced in the future. Publishing a book will widely disseminate the information, so that it might not be lost for all time. I doubt it will be "lost for all time" any more than Kodak's B&W processes were. AFAIK, when Kodak got out of the B&W darkroom end of the business, they sold it lock, stock & production machinery to the Chinese, who carted the whole thing off. And that those Chinese factories are producing adequate supplies for those of us still interested in B&W darkroom. The demand for film is still there for now, but as it diminishes, at some point Kodak will find it necessary to sell off the production process in order to meet investors expectations. But the process won't be lost, just relocated. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Interesting new book for film fans
My take. Someone at Kodak doesn't think the this technology will be
maintained much longer. But it may have to be reproduced in the
future. Publishing a book will widely disseminate the information, so
that it might not be lost for all time.
On 7/28/2010 12:18 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
paul stenquist wrote:
On Jul 28, 2010, at 11:12 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:
A friend of mine at GEH just posted this link on her Facebook page:
http://makingkodakfilm.com/
Making KODAK Film
The Illustrated Story of State-of-the-Art
Photographic Film Manufacturing
I guess film industry trade secrets aren't all that important any more.
Apparently Kodak was enormously helpful to the author, providing
generous access -- including allowing photographing of their equipment
-- and a lot of consultants to answer questions.
It seems as if they want someone to document all this while it's still
around. And that they don't expect it to be around for much longer.
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Re: Interesting new book for film fans
paul stenquist wrote: >On Jul 28, 2010, at 11:12 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > >> A friend of mine at GEH just posted this link on her Facebook page: >> http://makingkodakfilm.com/ >> Making KODAK Film >> The Illustrated Story of State-of-the-Art >> Photographic Film Manufacturing >> >I guess film industry trade secrets aren't all that important any more. Apparently Kodak was enormously helpful to the author, providing generous access -- including allowing photographing of their equipment -- and a lot of consultants to answer questions. It seems as if they want someone to document all this while it's still around. And that they don't expect it to be around for much longer. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Interesting new book for film fans
I guess film industry trade secrets aren't all that important any more. On Jul 28, 2010, at 11:12 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > A friend of mine at GEH just posted this link on her Facebook page: > http://makingkodakfilm.com/ > Making KODAK Film > The Illustrated Story of State-of-the-Art > Photographic Film Manufacturing > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Interesting new book for film fans
A friend of mine at GEH just posted this link on her Facebook page: http://makingkodakfilm.com/ Making KODAK Film The Illustrated Story of State-of-the-Art Photographic Film Manufacturing -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
