erik_hattrem Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Yesterday the chief sales agent at the largest distribution-house in Europe called me. He had the new pricelist for 2008 ready and he simply asked if i wanted to try out the brand new Tri-x. I asked if he meant to ask that i want to try the new Tmax400. He said: No, the new Tri-X, thats what my stocklist tells me we have samples of... I im 99% sure he is wrong. But maybe there is a hope for even a new Tri-x since Kodak is implanting their Vision 2 and 3 technology into almost all of their new negativ films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelging Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 On one hand I hope you are right Erik, on the other hand I just orderd a $100 of the old Tri-x from B&H about a hour ago. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicaglow Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 This rumor has been going around, but I've not seen anything conclusive yet. Did he say what format is was available in? 35mm I assume, 120? 4x5? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w_t1 Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 This is good news. Bring bag Panatomic-X too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larrydressler Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Last year Kodak cleared from their film line over 50% of their profits. Just because the cow is old she still delivers milk I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce_erickson1 Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Can someone explain what Vision 2 and/or Vision 3 technology is, what it does for the film, etc.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicaglow Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Bruce, check out this Kodak info about exposure latitude and what not of newer films: http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/about/news/5219release.jhtml?id=0.1.4.5&lc=en Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_stockdale2 Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 It doesn't seem long ago that Tri-X was improved, and by some accounts became better than T-Max400 in just about all respects. Now T-Max400 has just been improved they have announced. It seems a bit too soon to improve Tri-X I would guess. But maybe they are trying to get those of us who gave up on Kodak years ago something to get tempted by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_obturateur Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 OTT but funny to see how some "experts" predicted (years ago on this very forum) the death of all photo film PRECISELY because of the imminent death of cinema stock... (replaced with digital cameras, something that has only happened in the mind of George Lucas btw). Now we see new improved movie stocks ("incorporating technical breakthroughs" says Kodak) and we, film users, expects these breakthroughs to be applied to our beloved TRI-X. Since the same "experts" have seen the demise of FB papers, I'm betting on the return of Afga-Gevaert most exotic products for 2009... ;-) And thank you Erik for the info! Hope you'll be proven right... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_shriver Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Vision 2 technology causes two electrons to be knocked loose for each photon capture event. That basically doubles film speed for a given grain. Vision 3 ups that to three electrons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_obturateur Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Thx John! Does that mean 500 Iso cinema stock has a sensibility of 1000 Iso pre-Vision2 stock? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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