steve_levine Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 Kodak announced this film is no longer being made.As the pro shooters here know,this emulsion was used to produce "slide proofs" from color negs.It will be sadly missed.Also,in todays Wall Street Journal,Kodal anounced 6,000 more layoffs.As they "evolve from a historical film producing company,to serving the digital imaging market". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex_jenkins Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 One has to wonder how Kodak will serve any market with no employees. I suspect asset plundering by corporate thieves who will leave the venerable company a hollow yellow shell with nothing of value other than its name. Maybe Cosina will buy 'em out and add the quaint film manufacturing industry to its retro camera lineup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill_tuthill Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 Does this mean Dale Labs will no longer be able to offer their attractively priced slides-from-negs service? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_levine Posted July 23, 2003 Author Share Posted July 23, 2003 Millers Imaging has emailed its clients about this,they anticipate running out in about 12 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aguilabrava Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 They discontinued one of their Vericolor slide films, the Kodak Vericolor Slide Film SO-279, but they still have Kodak Vericolor Slide Film /VS available, which is basically the same film but it comes in 100-foot bulk rolls only. Now, in this case they might be right, I don't know many people that would buy Vericolor slide film in 135 36 exposure cartdriges just to make some slides from negatives at home, and pro labs that are the main buyers for this type of film I'm sure buy it by the bulk in 100-foot rolls, so it didn't probably make a lot of sense to produce it in 135 36 exposure cartdriges and not sell enough of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ted_marcus1 Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 <i>Does this mean Dale Labs will no longer be able to offer their attractively priced slides-from-negs service?</i> <p>Dale uses "Vision" print film, which Kodak sells for producing the prints of motion pictures you see at your local multiplex cinema. While it's designed to complement the "Vision" line of motion picture negative films, it makes very nice slides from regular C-41 negatives. Dale Labs has always used motion picture print film rather than Vericolor because (they claim) the image quality is better (and it probably costs less in bulk). From what I've seen of slides printed on Vericolor, I'd have to agree with Dale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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