[rollei_list] Re: Large Format film availability
- From: "Eric Goldstein" <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:47:17 -0400
This was a marketing/branding decision. Vinyl is being positioned as
the high-priced spread, just as film is beginning to be right now. The
finest corporate and wedding shooters differentiate themselves by
shooting film and charge up the wazoo for it...
Eric Goldstein
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On 4/30/08, Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The higher cost of the record may be due to several factors. For one thing
> vinyl is now a specialty item for which a high price can be demanded.
> Secondly, the production facilities for vinyl records must certainly be of
> very low volume compared to what was available before the advent of digital
> discs. At the time I was involved with the custom recording business there
> were many alternatives for getting records made in the Los Angeles area, I
> have been away from this business for a very long time now so I am not
> current on what is available but suspect its pretty limited. At the time I
> was active the cost of producing an LP excepting the cost of mastering it
> was about $1.00 each in quantities of around 200. At higher quantities the
> prices dropped. My memory is that at around 1000 the price per disc was no
> more than fifty cents. This would have included plain labels but not
> packaging. The cost of packaging could easily exceed the cost of the record
> depending on the nature of the printing. A plain white envelope was about
> fifty cents but a four-color printed envelope or foldable album could cost
> several times the record cost.
> There were a number of local production houses who would press anything
> from maybe 25 discs up to a few thousand. For greater quantities one could
> use the custom record production offered by major labels, for very large
> quantities they were very cheap.
> I suspect the price of having a custom record produced from an original
> source is considerably more now simply because it has become such a limited
> market. LP production has never stopped because they are needed for disco
> use and because of specialty audiofile production but facilities for
> production of multi-millions of pressings must certainly be a thing of the
> past.
> BTW, the production methods for LP's remained mostly hand work although
> there was some automated pressing equipment. EP's (45's to you) were
> originally designed for injection molding and automatic production was much
> more common than for Lp's.
>
> Yours for a hot biscuit at midnight...
>
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> Los Angeles, CA, USA
> dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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