Kodak To End Production Of Acetate Film Base
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Robert Ruffo
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Sad. Very sad.
Inevitable.
Apparently they're just going to buy it form a 3r party supplier when they run out.
A Kodak spokesman declined to go on camera but says they plan to buy acetate from other manufacturers once their supply runs out. - See more at: http://rochesterhomepage.net/fulltext?nxd_id=394722#sthash.7PW7DOUQ.dpuf
A Kodak spokesman declined to go on camera but says they plan to buy acetate from other manufacturers once their supply runs out. - See more at: http://rochesterhomepage.net/fulltext?nxd_id=394722#sthash.7PW7DOUQ.dpuf
paulears
Veteran
Sad for the workers, but it's evolution. When they invented film, live theatre with actors, singers and dancers took a hit, then sound came and the musicians and touring voice companies took a hit. Then vinyl plants shut down, not to mention the big chemical companies who shut plants making oxide cassette tapes. For each technology step forward, the loss of one is counteracted by the inception of a new one. The truly sad thing is that the new media companies are rarely based in our own communities but in ones in far poorer parts of the world.
David W. Jones
Veteran
Typewriters & Whiteout, that's exactly where film is headed.
I'm sure the river in Rochester is thankful. Not sure what the pollution problem is today, but as I understand it, Kodak was a huge chemical polluter in the past. This whole digital thing is a god send. No more paper for photos, news print or chemicals for the whole photo and film world. We've come along way since 1982 when I started in photography. I don't think we could have even comprehended the current state of photography back then. Hell, if someone handed me the current Canon Rebel in 1982, they could have easily convinced me it was alien technology from another world.