I imagine that there is *a lot* of film being put in freezers by some people in Hollywood (which would be sort of artificially inflating the demand seen right now), but yeah - the writing is on the wall. If you haven't yet seen the documentary "Side by Side" I highly recommend it. Trailer and outtakes here: Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr1l1NgQH4s Outtakes playlist: http://goo.gl/gimEu
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > John Sessoms wrote: > >>From: Mark Roberts >>> There's a bit of panic going around the web as Kodak has announced >>> they're going to cease manufacture of acetate film base. They're not >>> stopping FILM production, they're just no longer manufacturing their >>> own acetate to make it with. >> >>That's kind of ironic, because I thought Kodak had stopped making film a >>year or so back. > > They stopped production of all slide film about a year and a half ago. > Now it's just B&W negative and color negative film. The motion picture > industry is all that's keeping the production lines running enough to > be profitable now. When movies go all digital that'll probably be the > end for film. > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- "Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art" - Peter Galassi -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
