Kodak Reintroduces Ektachrome Film

wow is that the film that had its own development process that only dealers could do?
 
No, that was Kodachrome.
 
Apparently, we might get our first samples by the end of the year https://petapixel.com/2017/09/13/return-kodak-ektachrome-film-nigh/

I was reading a little about the history of kodak last night, and it struck me if they hadn't spun off Eastman Chemical in the 90s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastman_Chemical_Company they would have survived the dip in film largely unscathed? I'm sure they wouldn't have been forced to firesale the family silver at any rate... (for instance I didn't know they had the development/patents on OLED tech - only the future tech for screens! Sold to LG...)

Anyhow, long live Kodak Alaris, it is kinda british now as well!
 
Yay!!! Long live FILM!!!
 
New update: https://www.kodak.com/id/en/corp/podcasts/kodakery/default.htm
So apparently everything is at the stage where the first big roll (6000ft) will be rolled out in the next few weeks - supposedly only for internal testing and perhaps some lucky reviewers will get their hands on some. Then production rolls early next year! Enjoyable listen, and what must be quite a rare glimpse into film production. Also what I find encouraging is that there is a good base of expertise is left from the heyday of kodak.
 
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FujiLove said:
It's listed in the 2018 Firstcall catalogue at £8.99 for 36 exp.

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£8.99 for Ektachrome? I think many of us would like some of that!
 
I used to home process Ektachrome back in the day.
 
I used to home process Barfen E6 after 'rolling my own' from a Computrol bulk film loader back in the day. These days I think I'd rather pay £8.99 a roll and send it to a lab, I must be getting middle-aged! ;)
 
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As I mentioned on the other Ektachrome thread, if that's correct then £8.99 a roll would put it at about the same price as Agfa Precisa, so I think Kodak should shift quite a bit of it at that price. I just hope they don't try to make it a 'premium' type product and pitch it at £12 or something like that, as I doubt they'd shift much after people had tried a roll or two and the novelty had worn off.
 
Mr Badger said:
I used to home process Barfen E6 after 'rolling my own' from a Computrol bulk film loader back in the day. These days I think I'd rather pay £8.99 a roll and send it to a lab, I must be getting middle-aged! ;)
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I did that once with a kit of 3 films and a set of 4 plastic 300ml bottles with different coloured lids that I possibly still have somewhere. :oops: :$ I never really took to it and only ever digitised 1 slide many years later, and here it is!

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Mr Badger said:
As I mentioned on the other Ektachrome thread, if that's correct then £8.99 a roll would put it at about the same price as Agfa Precisa, so I think Kodak should shift quite a bit of it at that price. I just hope they don't try to make it a 'premium' type product and pitch it at £12 or something like that, as I doubt they'd shift much after people had tried a roll or two and the novelty had worn off.
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Well a MF user and paying for any film @ £12 per roll would have to be a VG photographer OR don't care about money..as the total cost inc dev and postage at best e.g. 6X4.5 would be £1 plus a shot :eek: if only one decent shot out of a roll and it could cost about £16 :(
 
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Well a MF user and paying for any film @ £12 per roll would have to be a VG photographer OR don't care about money..as the total cost inc dev and postage at best e.g. 6X4.5 would be £1 plus a shot :eek: if only one decent shot out of a roll and it could cost about £16 :(
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Again? Really? Every thread?
 
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Well a MF user and paying for any film @ £12 per roll would have to be a VG photographer OR don't care about money..as the total cost inc dev and postage at best e.g. 6X4.5 would be £1 plus a shot :eek: if only one decent shot out of a roll and it could cost about £16 :(
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For colour, 5x4 can cost upwards of £8 per frame if developed at a lab. And yet I still shoot it. And while being a mediocre photographer at best. And while not making any money out of it. And while not making a stellar salary.

If it cost me £1 per frame I'd be machine gunning the stuff.
 
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Woodsy said:
For colour, 5x4 can cost upwards of £8 per frame if developed at a lab. And yet I still shoot it. And while being a mediocre photographer at best. And while not making any money out of it. And while not making a stellar salary.

If it cost me £1 per frame I'd be machine gunning the stuff.
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Well I take my hat off to you and Gareth for enjoying film no matter the cost. (y)
 
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Well a MF user and paying for any film @ £12 per roll would have to be a VG photographer OR don't care about money..as the total cost inc dev and postage at best e.g. 6X4.5 would be £1 plus a shot :eek: if only one decent shot out of a roll and it could cost about £16 :(
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[copy and paste my previous response to this exact same comment here]
 
excalibur2 said:
Well a MF user and paying for any film @ £12 per roll would have to be a VG photographer OR don't care about money..as the total cost inc dev and postage at best e.g. 6X4.5 would be £1 plus a shot :eek: if only one decent shot out of a roll and it could cost about £16 :(
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It's a hobby so cost/benefit is up to individual pleasure surely. :)

Polaroid Instant film costs more than £1 a go but plenty folks are prepared to pay that .
 
desf said:
It's a hobby so cost/benefit is up to individual pleasure surely. :)
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Well indeed, it's just my attitude has changed about the value of things now and equate it to a state pension of £151 per week...just as well the forum is not full of old farts :eek:
 
I look at it this way, of the MF cameras I have, the most expensive one that I own cost me £130, plus none of them have interchangeable lenses. That allows me to occasionally treat them to some £12 per roll film. How much is a Canon 5D iv and a couple of the L glass lenses required to do it justice, and how many £12 rolls of film would that buy?

All things are relative, I can use the cheaper stuff for practice and fun, but the dearer stuff for best and/or when the light is tricky. Besides, I find that the quality is remembered long after the price has been forgotten. :)
 
I'm afraid my attitude is that it's cheaper than it used to be. Converting from prices then to prices now, when I was a student (50 years ago) a 36 exposure black and white film cost £14 to put into my manual focus, no meter SLR which cost just short of £2,000. I metered using my £500 Lunasix meter. I didn't use Kodachrome because at £35 for 36 exposures it was too expensive. The budget lenses that were all I could afford cost around £400 - and didn't even stop down automatically for the exposure. The manufacturers' high quality lenses started at around £800 upwards. And that was just for the common focal lengths of 35mm, 135mm etc. Specialist lenses were more.

On topic - Ektachrome wasn't a favourite of mine; compared to Kodachrome it always seemed washed out and cold tone.
 
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I'm afraid my attitude is that it's cheaper than it used to be. Converting from prices then to prices now, when I was a student (50 years ago) a 36 exposure black and white film cost £14 to put into my manual focus, no meter SLR which cost just short of £2,000. I metered using my £500 Lunasix meter. I didn't use Kodachrome because at £35 for 36 exposures it was too expensive. The budget lenses that were all I could afford cost around £400 - and didn't even stop down automatically for the exposure. The manufacturers' high quality lenses started at around £800 upwards. And that was just for the common focal lengths of 35mm, 135mm etc. Specialist lenses were more.
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I had to Like, Unlike and Like this to do it justice! Well said, Stephen.
 
Based on that, my Canon A1 which cost around £230 with 50mm f/1.8 lens in 1980 would equate to around £1,200 at today's money give or take a few quid. This was Canon's 'prosumer' flagship at the time, bettered only by the top of the range F1n, which was more expensive. Fast forward to these days, how much is a 5D iv (equivalent 2nd down from top) without f/1.8 50mm lens? So I don't think we're exactly rolling in clover with that 'like-for-like' comparison, are we? And as for a Lunasix at £500, I've got a used one here you can have for £60. Bargain. (y)
 
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I must admit that I'm not up in the features of modern digital cameras, but I think that the 5div has a built in meter, TTL at a guess, and may even have autofocus and automatic exposure :D. I also suspect that a digital sensor costs a few bob too. The price I just looked up makes it the same price as a Nikon F in my student days. Perhaps not clover, because I'm no fan of digital, but I still think cheaper.

Thank you for the offer of a Lunasix, but I already have my still working 1965 one, plus two spares, a Lunasix 3 and a Lunasix 3S. Brett Weston (or one of Edward's sons) did not use a meter on the grounds that he'd have a problem if he relied on it and it failed. That's why I always carry a spare; I normally have a Lunasix and Sekonic spotmeter on me, with a selenium cell Weston in the car just in case.
 
Mr Badger said:
Based on that, my Canon A1 which cost around £230 with 50mm f/1.8 lens in 1980 would equate to around £1,200 at today's money give or take a few quid. This was Canon's 'prosumer' flagship at the time, bettered only by the top of the range F1n, which was more expensive. Fast forward to these days, how much is a 5D iv (equivalent 2nd down from top) without f/1.8 50mm lens? So I don't think we're exactly rolling in clover with that 'like-for-like' comparison, are we? And as for a Lunasix at £500, I've got a used one here you can have for £60. Bargain. (y)
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Rip off Britain? In 1980 in the US the Canon A1 with 50mm f1.4 was going for about $400 and the exchange rate was equivalent to about £170....I got round these silly UK prices for my MF lenses by buying S\H or grey imports.
 
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