[rollei_list] Re: Large Format film availability
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:19:43 -0700
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From: "John Jensen" <jwjensen356@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 1:10 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Large Format film availability
Premium pricing for vinyl, I suppose so but in a way, not
so bad. I saw a new pressing of Gaite Parisienne (Boston
Pops, Arthur Fiedler) at $27 for vinyl. I have the same
mono disc purchased for about $5 in the mid 50s .
Considering inflation, 1958 to 2008, that's quite OK.
Which really means to me that the $5 then was a big bite
into the pocketbook. Interestingly, the new pressing is
on thick vinyl which should be less prone to warping. In
an internet record website I saw the equivalent in CD
format for $9.95. (Amazon has it for $11.98).
John
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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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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