NO Ektachrome200 anything

<p>Just to let you people that Kodak has fully discontinued E200 in 35mm, so the only film stock that Kodak makes in Color Slide is E100G in 35mm/120/220/ & Sheet film. E100VS is only in 35mm & 120 maybe 220, but how long that Kodak will hold out?? Their Portra & Ektar getting good reviews which I do like the Portra400 which it is similar to the old Ultracolor400. As for Fuji Fujichrome400X in 120 GONE, and now the Fujichrome Astia 100 is now discontinued Velvia50 Yes -No? we do not know they are playing Musical Chairs with us, which it's not fair. How long are we suppose handle film stock if our favorite films are going away. Kodachrome my favorite, Gone-what next Black & white TX & HP5 I wonder??</p>

<p>Not happy to hear any of this news.</p>

<p>I just went through a number of metal file boxes filled with Ektachrome and Kodachrome slides from the sixties through the nineties. Stored cool and dry, they're spectacular! Was a bit of a heartbreak too, though. A bygone era. Now adjusted pretty well to a series of Nikon DSLRs I'm enjoying the electronic monitor viewing (talking myself into this) but it will never compare with opening that box of slides fresh from the mail, smelling the emulsion as I lifted each slide to my loupe and viewing the physical characteristics of color etched in gelatin. But life goes on. Sold the slide projector and screen last month for $5 and felt fortunate that anyone wanted them.</p>

<p>E200 was my favorite in 120 - its disappearance 1 year ago was the reason I went digital with an EOS 5 Mk II. It had a useful speed and was not too contrasty.</p>

<p>Alex, I am an avid film shooter. I will continue to shoot whatever is available as long as I can. I share your frustration fully but this has been beat to death continually for ????<br>

I personally am using the Ilford brands. They are available to me and at a reasonable price.<br>

BH has huge stocks of film. I wouldn't worry about Velvia 50 any time soon.<br>

Technology in film and photography will continue to evolve. I will adjust as I have to to enjoy my craft.<br>

I wish you well!<br>

Mark</p>

<p>Sad news. I'm on the cusp of getting my old Minolta bodies refurbished, lenses cleaned. Really keen to use them in 2012 as one of my projects 'A Year in film' Been looking though some of my old images that I scanned a while back though I have to agree with Howard, there is nothing to compare with the anticipation of and then examining a fresh batch of slides (or negs) and seeing the image that at the time you though yes..got it and seeing that YES you did get it and it's better than you remember. DSLR has killed that..though you do now have the chance 'if' you're quick to make sure you got it!<br />Must research what is still available here in the UK before committing money to the refurb.<br>

<a href="../photodb/folder?folder_id=780491">Examples of various film mediums (35mm) scanned using Minolta Dimage 300</a><img src="../photodb/folder?folder_id=780491" alt="" /></p>

<p>I suppose, it depends to what we get attached.<br>

Horses and carts not cars.<br>

Steam ships not planes.<br>

Letters not email.<br>

Yet these same people who have modernised in other areas lament the decline of film.<br>

Get with it and realise its the image. Ever heard of a painter dependent on one brush.<br>

I too have made thousands of film shots of various types and I had to realise what the important part was - it was the image not the long gone film or any other technology.</p>

<p>Going back in time one can remember when a local Kmart or Walgreens had 200 speed Ektachrome. Today the largest retailer in the USA does not even carry any Kodak film, ie the big W.. Remember when Jane and Joe average could buy Kodak film for their camera in Anywhere USA?. Remember when every tiny drug store had rolls of Kodachrome, TRI-X, or movie film? Remember when the neighbors showed you a boring slide show of their trip out West on US 66 in their new 1966 Ford Falcon wagon? Today the average person does not even know what a slide is and many younger folks have never used a film camera. The decline in film usage marches on. Film is a perishable product that requires a giant fixed capital manufacturing line to maintain. Once the sales drop too much the plug has to be pulled. Kodak stock really is the same price as it was when every tiny drug store in Anywhere USA had Verichrome in 620 rolls. Kodak is "selling the homes silverware to keep the lights on", ie selling its patents as a last gap way of not dying. Your favorite Kodak films might already been halted and just being slit from master rolls and sheets.</p>