[rollei_list] Re: The End of Kodachrome
- From: Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:31:40 -0700 (PDT)
According a Kodak statement, while the current Kodak films portfolio are made
using identical materials, Kodachrome manufacture requires unique materials, it
was made once per year; since Kodachrome sales represents less than 1% for
Kodak today, they decided to cease Kodachrome film production because
Kodachrome manufacture became expensive too much.-
Carlos
--- El mar 23-jun-09, Douglas Nygren <dnygr@xxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
> De: Douglas Nygren <dnygr@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Asunto: [rollei_list] Re: The End of Kodachrome
> Para: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fecha: martes, 23 de junio de 2009, 8:14 am
> I had read that to make developing
> Kodachrome economically viable large quantities had to be
> run. That's what someone told me. It would be interesting to
> know whether that's true and what the costs were. It was not
> a simple process I understand from what I have heard.
>
>
> Doug
>
>
> On Jun 23, 2009, at 1:27 AM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>
> > While discontinuing Kodachrome
> based on lack of sales may make sense from a business
> standpoint I rather wonder if sales would have been better
> if Kodak hadn't been trying to kill off Kodachrome for a
> dozen years. The first step was eliminating processing for
> sizes other than 35mm and making even that hard to obtain.
> Why buy a film that is difficult to get processed when you
> can use another film which is processed by every corner
> store.
> > I am not sure why Kodak
> decided to eliminate this product. One long standing
> suggestion is that the processing required substances which
> were difficult to control from an environmental protection
> standpoint. If this is true it may have made the operation
> of processing machines excessively expensive. Since all the
> film is made on one line in one factory control on the
> manufacturing side should have been easier.
> > Kodak began eliminating
> Kodachrome formats and processing very early on. Up until
> the announcement of Ektachrome, c.1946, Kodak made
> Kodakchrome in sheet sizes up to 11x14. All those went as
> soon as Ektachrome came on the market. OTOH, Kodak did not
> offer Kodachrome in roll film sizes until fairly recent
> times. Otherwise it was made in 35mm for still cameras and
> in 8mm and 16mm for motion picture cameras.
> > Well, its gone and nothing
> will bring it back. It was a bit of a tour-de-force when
> first made. While Agfa beat Kodak to the punch in having an
> incorporated coupler color film it was never anywhere as
> good as Kodachrome.
> >
> > --
> > Richard Knoppow
> > Los Angeles, CA, USA
> > dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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