Joop van Heijgen Posted March 7, 2012 Share #41 Posted March 7, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) As a guy who used to own 2 Rollei 6x6cm projectors, I agree with you about this and most of your other points regarding slide and larger transparency film. But times have changed and so have the needs of many clients and photographers. Now days I am very happy with the results I get from digital as I have much finer control over the entire process and can also retouch the image to my liking, more easily solve some technical and compositional problems, or easily make images that would be very difficult or impossible to achieve with film. I think that lots of other working photographers came to the same conclusion and that did not leave much of a market for transparency film once they stopped using it. I do think that there is still a niche market for slide film. Fuji can serve now this market. 80% of the slide film production is for the German market...In the USA slide film is not very populair since many years....also before the digital times:cool: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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gyoung Posted March 7, 2012 Share #42 Posted March 7, 2012 I spoke to the Fuji fil 'manager' on their stand at Focus today, they have seen a big drop in reversal film sales in the last year, but have no plans to stop producing it at the moment. If you arte interested they still have some Sensia left, although personally I can't see any difference to Provia when I have tried it. Gerry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxspbr Posted March 7, 2012 Share #43 Posted March 7, 2012 Kodak produced fine slide film - but has the worst way to sell their products. I live in Brazil, and since ten years ago I'm unable to buy a single roll of Ektachrome. No one sells it - ever Kodak. The same happened with BW photo paper and some films, like Plus-X. If I can't buy because there is no product, how they want to sell?! My grandfather, in 30s, bought Kodachrome, sent to USA and got the rolls finished in 2 weeks. He did this over 30 years. Kodak system worked like a fine watch, extremely trusteable. Very different from now... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joop van Heijgen Posted March 7, 2012 Share #44 Posted March 7, 2012 Kodak produced fine slide film - but has the worst way to sell their products. I live in Brazil, and since ten years ago I'm unable to buy a single roll of Ektachrome. No one sells it - ever Kodak. The same happened with BW photo paper and some films, like Plus-X. If I can't buy because there is no product, how they want to sell?! My grandfather, in 30s, bought Kodachrome, sent to USA and got the rolls finished in 2 weeks. He did this over 30 years. Kodak system worked like a fine watch, extremely trusteable. Very different from now... Also in the Netherlands the last 5 years...Only with parallel import I could get Elitechrom and Ektachrome....as consumer it is impossible to get in contact with the Kodak head office in the Netherlands about the bad achievement of their slide films.... Fuji have compared with Kodak a much better customer support and you can buy their films with the most photo/camera dealers. Kodak have had an extremely bad management for many years from the '90-s Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ornello Posted March 7, 2012 Share #45 Posted March 7, 2012 Also in the Netherlands the last 5 years...Only with parallel import I could get Elitechrom and Ektachrome....as consumer it is impossible to get in contact with the Kodak head office in the Netherlands about the bad achievement of their slide films.... Fuji have compared with Kodak a much better customer support and you can buy their films with the most photo/camera dealers. Kodak have had an extremely bad management for many years from the '90-s One almost is forced to the conclusion that Kodak were trying to destroy themselves. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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