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Color

Color

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so it seems like kodak discontinued their 50d vision II, is that right? i cant find it anywhere and i work at a photo store!! also, i dont know if you guys are aware, but they are closing their last film plant in january. supposed to have a warehouse that lasts for about a year, then itll be all fuji baby. just trying to keep the film section alive! i really wanted some 50d too, damn. does anyone know if they still stock the 250d? all this stuff is on their website still too, weird
 
I had no problem getting 50D last week. Motion picture film is not dead yet. If Kodak quit making motion picture film as you say, that means every movie theater in the US will go out of business next year. I think what you're hearing about is 35mm SLR film. Not motion picture film.
 
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no. kodak is making NO MORE FILM. they close their last film plant in january, and will have a warehouse that will last approximately a year. after that, its all fuji. i work at a camera store, kodak announced it last year.
 
Color said:
no. kodak is making NO MORE FILM. they close their last film plant in january, and will have a warehouse that will last approximately a year. after that, its all fuji. i work at a camera store, kodak announced it last year.
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Balderdash. Sorry, but it is. Kodak are still making a massive chunk of their profits from film.
True, they have discontinued a number of films, but they will not drop film per se yet - to do so would be suicidal.

I know they are having some trouble filling their larger coating machines, but AFAIK that applies to certain still stocks only.
I'm still using a lot of Kodak pro stills film, and they have just reformulated one type I use. If the death of their film was imminent, they simply wouldn't have bothered to do this.

Motion picture stock is still gobbled by the mile in most big studios, and is likely to be used as a release medium for a good while yet.

I don't know where you got the announcement that Kodak were dropping film from, but I recommend you give Kodak a ring and see what they say :)



PS; no offence intended by my opening comment. I just wanted to make a point :)
 
the US market was taken over by fuji not too long ago, its now too late for kodak. they have enough money to still stay afloat with military contracts. kodak owns some of the best optics in the world, they are not available to the public, only to the military where they make more than enough. they are also concentrating on digital. we will see the outcome of this arguement in not too long
 
I'm sorry, but this is simply not true. Kodaks 35mm still film has taken a beating and they are shutting down plants, yes. But to say Kodak is going to totally quit making any and all type of film in January is poposterous. If that was true, that would mean about 75% of TV shows would be canceled, almost all of the major movie studios would be shut down and almost all of the movie theaters in the US would instantly go out of business.

Kodak just sponsored a major Confrerence in Dallas about filmmaking and was pushing the use of film. Sounds like stupid thing to do for someone who's going to quit selling in 5 months something they were heavily invested in to promote.

With all due respect, you don't know what you're talking about.
 
They are going to stop making film cameras, and b&w paper, and slide projectors, but nowhere is there an announcement (that I can find) that they will cease making film entirely..

They have to realign if they want to stay with the times. Nikon isn't going to make film cameras anymore either, etc, etc.

35mm motion picture film is being used more now than it ever has before in history.

They've also recently announced a new type of film. Vision2, which is a type of hybrid digital/film system:
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/products/negative/7299.jhtml?id=0.1.4.4.4.6&lc=en

kodak said:
Highlights for the quarter included a 65% increase in consumer digital camera sales, and an 18% increase in sales of motion-picture origination and print film.
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Taken from:
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/pressReleases/pr20030723-01.shtml

I dont' think they would stop selling film anytime soon considering an 18% increase in sales of film...

They are realigning to change with the times

Jason
 
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