[rollei_list] Re: I came too late using FUJI ASTIA slides ...Kodak

From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:49:18 -0300
Emmanuel:
                   You had commented about Fuji Astia discontinuation
for 35mm in January 2011, but you still had some hope for the 120
version and then I assume it was discontinued for 120 too. I started
to use Kodak Ektachrome 100 G slide film last year ( I used it for
some of my Lanin volcano travel and climbing shots), I liked the
results very much, but now Kodak has discontinued any color reversal
film manufacture, Kodak slide films no longer exist, anyway they still
will manufacture E-6 chemicals, they also say "...in the case of slide
films, the decline has been pretty acute, and in addition to that, the
complexity of the formulation and manufacturing of these films made it
that we could no longer sustain them." (BPJ web site). Anyway, I read
that if Kodak survives film manufacture will be within its business,
"...This doesn't affect our Portra films, our Ektar and
black-and-white films...". Kodak films prices increased 15%.-

Carlos




El día 13 de abril de 2012 10:13, Bigler Emmanuel
<Emmanuel.Bigler@xxxxxxxx> escribió:
>
> [off-Rollei-topic]
>
> I as often mentioned it on this list, I'm a regular enthusiastic user
> of color slides. Call the attitude "a lost battle" if you prefer ;-)
>
> Only recently did I start using FUJI ASTIA film, and I still have a
> small number of 135 and 120 ASTIA rolls to go, but now the film is
> discontinued. I came too late trying this film ... Probably I was
> influenced by some Provia/Velvia lobbying friends, oriented toward
> landscape and outdoor photography.
>
> Well, I recently received a series of 4x6" prints-on-paper from 35 mm
> ASTIA slides, taken with my faithful Rollei 35 SE camera. Prints were
> made at a local photo shop operating a FUJI frontier machine. Pictures
> on slides were taken at a family wedding, and I knew that ASTIA is
> good for portrait with flash light, at least in a professional
> environment.
>
> I'm truly amazed by the good quality of the printed results I obtained
> in careless lighting conditions and often in crude, direct,
> "single-flash" lighting conditions. On color slides!! So good that I
> regret not to have used more ASTIA slide film at previous family
> events ...
>
> Nevertheless, it's useless to complain and regret the past. I have
> recently made other "family images" with a 6x6 Rollei TLR with a
> single flash unit, on Kodak color negative film, and the results are
> admittedly the best from film shots when prints or jpegs-on-screen are
> intended as the final form of display for the images.
> Those Kodak color negs are incredibly forgiving for amateur-grade
> lighting conditions with a single flash unit, as if the film, although
> labeled 'professional' or something like that, was designed _only_ to
> be extremely tolerant for amateur use ;-)
>
> Hopefully Kodak will continue to fabricate those damn' good color
> negs.
>
> This eventually brings us to the availability of color slide film as
> of April, 2012.
>
> I thing I'd likely purchase some additional rolls of ASTIA, but I'm
> afraid that stocks at my usual European dealers are definitely empty.
> So instead, I could try some Kodak slides, until those stocks turn empty
> as well, before being forced to definitely say 'good by' to Rochester
> slides.
>
> And definitely switch to a mixed Japanese (Fuji) / Belgian
> (Agfa-Gevaert-Rollei-branded) supply of color slide films ;-)
>
> --
> Emmanuel
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