[rollei_list] Re: Large Format film availability
- From: "Eric Goldstein" <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:47:32 -0400
Actually producing the physical record was relatively inexpensive.
When I was first recording in the 70s, there were a lot of small
private labels pressing records in runs of hundreds for about a buck a
piece. These were very good pressing with premium jackets. This did
not include recording or mastering costs. It also did not include
distribution and marketing, which is usually what makes you or breaks
you...
How about recording booths? You went into a booth (like a passport
photo booth), closed the door, put in your quarters (maybe a buck or
two?) and speak or sing into a microphone while your record was cut.
This is one way families sent WWII GIs messages from home... some of
those recordings still survive...
Anybody remember?
Eric Goldstein
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On 4/30/08, Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Goldstein" <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:47 PM
> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Large Format film availability
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>
>
> > 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
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> You are right, I was trying to say somthing like that. I have no idea
> what the actual cost of custom manufacture is now and it
> would depend on how much capacity there is. In the BOD (bad
> old days) very limited production on one-steps would have
> been as much as $5 each but at a couple of hundred it
> dropped dramatically because the "tooling" cost remained the
> same up to whatever level additional stampers were
> necessary, maybe a thousand.
>
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