The ongoing mystery: how long will 35mm film be available?

<p>It will be available a long time, but it will come from Asia. China and Japan have thriving companies: Fuji, Lucky, Shanghai.<br>

I also think people are coming back to film somewhat, which should increase demans.</p>

 

<p>"It will be available a long time, but it will come from Asia. China and Japan have thriving companies: Fuji, Lucky, Shanghai.<br /> I also think people are coming back to film somewhat, which should increase demans."<br>

<br />B*LLSH*T.<br>

Do you have a thousand or two film cameras in stock, like many of them Hong-Kong camera store owners do, to advocate such nonsense?<br>

I will tell you what will happen, though I can't tell you the exact date. (How I wish, I knew it!).<br>

One day (it will be a grey day, dull weather, nothing special) Fuji announces that they stop producing film from the next month or two. The next day you will rush to the nearest store to buy yourself a lifetime supply of Superia. No way. The seller will inform you that all his stock was bought yesterday, as a matter of fact during one or two hours Fuji made the official statement.<br>

The remainder of film stock will then be sold mostly to hardcore mechanical Leica users for $20 to $50 per a box of film, depending on its expiration date. Film cameras will become a dead-weight. Millions of them in perfect form, just as good as dead-weight.<br>

This is what would happen to regular cars, if tomorrow you suddenly woke up in the world of electric cars.<br>

With only one small difference: you already ARE in the world of digital cameras.</p>

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<p>When the man in the suit shows up I will take my game to the back alley. :)<br>

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Oh, by the way, all of our cars can be changed to run on electric motors if we so desire. My friend and I converted an old Volkswagen to electric back in 1979. Pretty easy to do.<br>

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Larry Dressler has a recipe to make film from Egg Whites!</p>

 

<p>I have wise and strange friends Bill. :-)</p>

<p>The "back alley", i.e. B&W photography. The true and the only "photography" there is. It's like classical music, the eternal verities. But I love colour (and the 70-ies). As a matter of fact, I can't live without colour. And without all these particularities of rendering colours inherent to film.<br>

Sadly, I can't make colour film from egg whites. If anyone has a recipe, it's the best time to start selling it out.</p>

<p>Oleg why do you seem so full of hate? Relax learn how we are dealing with the changes and join in... My father hated my music I now love much of his....<br>

Larry</p>

<p>Not hate. Despair. I don't generally HATE, because HATE requires too much TIME. "Raise above HATE, (where you can)" is my motto. I am in despair, though. I planned going out on photographing journeys with my kid in 10 year's time. Looks like it will be just sight-seeing. You can't be bitten with digital, if you know what I mean. There is actually nothing YOU do. The CAMERA does everything.</p>

<p>Sigh... I take it you don't know me if you think the Digital is affecting me or my life. I still have trouble understanding what you are talking about. I shoot film in film cameras... What else is there to do?</p>

<p>Relax please.Film will be around for a long time because there is still plenty of worldwide demand to support it and the film producers are still making a decent profit.I loved Kodak but they are a pretty poor example of good managment decision makers over the years.It would be hard to base the longevity of film on the 'Kodak Model'.They are currently down to 13,000 employees who mainly support industrial printing methods.Most major cities will have someone who will process it as long as there is money to be made.It won't go away in the near future especially if the world economy finds a little more solid footing.I shoot digital at work because they demand it and I shoot film at home because I enjoy it,plain and simple.I assume with 7 billion people on this planet there must be at least 10% or more who are in the same situation as I.If the crowd turns left we turn right.Maybe we will need to go underground someday because of our beliefs?</p>

<p>I guess the homogenization of things in our lives has been obvious to many of us, affecting us in varying degrees, emoting different responses. It's so obvious that in social media, nothing stirs more emotion, and gets more hits than the notion of film for Photographers, that in itself says something, and there's plenty of optimism available there if one chooses to see it. We have lost some great films in the last 10 years, but whats left is great, beautiful, awesome, the evidence is in the film, we are looking right at it, its there, Look! No, film is not going away. If film gets killed its because someone wanted to do it, who is going to be that person? Step forward.</p>

<p>The Press Secretary of Fujifilm steps forward: "I have to put a stress on it once again: you will be officially informed about the discontinuation of film in due time and by the Press Secretary of Fujifilm. Just in the same manner as you were informed before. Thank you."<br>

P.S. You can always perform your own investigation as to who will have killed the film. You will have killed it. I will have killed it. Your kid with iPhone will have killed it. Ebay power-sellers will have killed it. Hollywood will have killed it. We all will have killed it. Tell your colleague at work the truth: "Joe Doe, I will never forget you and myself for having allowed you to commit that crime."<br>

This truly becomes ridiculous and I see it. Will not be posting in that thread anymore. Switching the notification off.</p>

 

<p>I have done the dirty deed, left 35mm behind.<br>

I always thought kodachrome would be a hard aact to follow, in 35mm. but idigital capture can pretty much match it now, I hink. even some of the smaller sensor formats can impress when used for large prints.</p>

<p>the advantage to professionals, of immediately being able to review their images, must be immense.<br>

most 35mm cameras with pedigree will end up in glass cases,imo. sad. Isay use your F100, as someone will cntinue tomake movie film. how good it will be,is anther matter.<br>

more important than digital v.analogue film is the quality of images - compositioetc. looking at 1950/60s' leica photografie magazines, standards have not been maintained.</p>

<p>I also like agfacolor ct18 film</p>

<p>I windered bout the ld eastg erman ORWO brand of film. I looked at that mine of misinformtion,wikipedia. in its latest incarnation, its still producing film, whether putting it into 35mm cannisters, 70m onto 120 rolls, not menioned.ORWO -OriginalWolfen, had access to agfacolor clour film technology, the transition to digital might be slower<br>

for secialist use, like aerial photography the transition to digital might be slower</p>

<p>I also like Agfacolor ct18 reversl film.</p>

<p>the issue ofarchival qualities of film v. digital. the former will require the hardware of the future to be cmpatible. I think it is wrong to rely solely on one process<br>

as for</p>

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<p>The ability to immediately review and reshoot images ... Barf.<br>

I have done the clean deed, left electronic behind.</p>

<p>All I know is I have 2 rolls in the fixer now and 5 more B&W to go then I hit the pile of C-41.</p>