Fujifilm officially discontinues production of motion picture film

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As previously announced, Fujifilm has stopped production of the majority of Motion Picture Film products by March, 2013.

We would like to thank you very much for your patronage during the long history of manufacture, sales and marketing of these products which will continue to be available until the inventory is exhausted. Please contact our worldwide distributors for availability information.

Fujifilm will continue to provide products and services designed for digital workflow of motion picture production and exhibition such as Recording film for Digital Separation [ETERNA-RDS] for long-term archiving, Imaging processing system [IS-100], and high-performance Fujinon lens for digital motion picture camera and projectors.

With an expertise in optics, image processing, storage and archiving, Fujifilm will continue to provide new and innovative products and services to contribute to the creative entertainment and broadcast industry.

Products in discontinuation of manufacturing

  • Color Positive Film
  • Color Negative Film
  • B&W Positive and Negative Film
  • Intermediate Film
  • Sound Recording Film
  • High Contrast Panchromatic Films
  • Chemicals (Japan only)
 
Damn this sucks, I get all the reasons why this is happening but I just watched a 4k scan of film and it still blows away any digital camera out there. I might have to "stock" up. Maybe this will spawn some sort of new niche film company like Impossible?
 
I figure if Kodak ever stops making 16mm film, there will be some enterprising Chinese company that will fill the niche.
 
Doctor Wu said:
I figure if Kodak ever stops making 16mm film, there will be some enterprising Chinese company that will fill the niche.
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I highly doubt that. Color cine film manufacture is a highly complex task, requiring a huge manufacturing line (millions of dollars, even in China) and bunches of highly trained technicians and engineers to run it. It's not something you can do in a garage. It's not something that you can make in low volume. You want to see how it's done, see the book Making Kodak Film. You won't believe it. And the book illustrates just what I'm sayin'. When Kodak stops, color cine film is over. Done. Kaput. Fini. It won't come back. Enjoy it while you can.
 
Jacked prices up 20% on their photo film too :( damn shame, they make killer color positive stuff
 
Yeah, when Kodak dies, film will be dead. Making emulsion is not an easy nor cheap thing. The more niche it is, the more expensive it is. It's a vicious cycle.
 
OK then. Shoot it now while it's still around!! If you can get on shows with that kind of budget or vision. Then shed a tear when it's gone.
 
I've been on two film productions in the last three months. I was 1st AC on both and I do get excited every-time I thread the camera with no issues, and as of now, I've done so about 50 times consecutively without any issue. Normal for regular film AC's, but considering I do digital more than film, I'm proud!

Before film is totally gone, I shall shoot something as a cinematographer on the medium. I just have to one last time.
 
Sad day indeed when film will be dead...talking from a stills point of view. Suppose it is the simplicity of usage and the physicality of it that I like. What replaces the physicality of film will be storage....lots and lots of electricity driven, backup and secondary backup storage solutions. We will have to learn and teach to be critical to footage even though it is easy to acquire and easy to store. Suppose the generations of the future will have it easier in terms of admin of your stuff when you die cause they can just format your hard-drives. It also makes it so SO much harder if they do want to sort through your oddly organised 14000 terabyte harddrives of video and pictures and web articles and general useless stuff we as people tend to accumulate when we have abundance. Hiking bags is a great example - if you got the unnecessary extra space in your bag, you will find something unneeded to put in it.
 
Inprogress said:
Sad day indeed when film will be dead...talking from a stills point of view. Suppose it is the simplicity of usage and the physicality of it that I like. What replaces the physicality of film will be storage....lots and lots of electricity driven, backup and secondary backup storage solutions. We will have to learn and teach to be critical to footage even though it is easy to acquire and easy to store. Suppose the generations of the future will have it easier in terms of admin of your stuff when you die cause they can just format your hard-drives. It also makes it so SO much harder if they do want to sort through your oddly organised 14000 terabyte harddrives of video and pictures and web articles and general useless stuff we as people tend to accumulate when we have abundance. Hiking bags is a great example - if you got the unnecessary extra space in your bag, you will find something unneeded to put in it.
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Film may be dead or dying, but prints are not. You can still make great prints of your photos and that isn't going away any time soon.
 
The number of labs to process film and create projection prints has diminished since Digital projection has become more mainstream.
 
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