Dirk DeJonghe Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Have a look at this interesting documentary about Kodak: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/still-hoping-for-future-kodak-moments/?_r=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Schilling Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 That was from a years ago. Then they went bankrupt. Clearly nothing happened with that. It's safe to say there is no longer any R&D going on into photographic film at Kodak. Edit: With the POSSIBLE exception of digital archiving film. I'm quoting from the head of this post which is supposedly new information. If it's not, then this whole thread is bogus. where is your quote from years ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Cunningham Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 The head of this post was from 2012 before the bankruptcy. It was rekindled because of recent quotes indicating a plan to bring back legacy stocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Burke Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 (edited) It's good to hear that they are still willing to evolve the Vision stocks instead of just letting them run the coarse as is. I've been wondering if a Vision 4 will come without an orange mask and just be a full DI stock. They tried it before with a one size fits all 500T stock but it was the wrong thing at the wrong time. I rather liked the 7299. I was very impressed with its grain structure and color.something like that could really fIll a lot of needs for filmmakers if anything I could see them going down to two stocks. 7213 is extremely versatile stock. Edited March 23, 2015 by Chris Burke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Schilling Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Oh what a nice prick tease from 2012, maybe a new thread would have been better? The update down the page is not viewable with all the pop ups Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Dunn Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 Aargh! That'll teach us to read the dates. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Pickering Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Dirk, Can you comment more on the 7222 film change you mentioned? Can anyone else confirm this change? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Simon Wyss Posted April 1, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted April 1, 2015 I had a phone talk the other day with Antonio Rasura, Kodak product, laboratory films and technical manager in London, and he said that there is no research and development any more at all. They have one coating machine in operation that is used for all stocks. I have also read through hundreds of comments of former Kodak employees from where it is more than clear that the enterprise was deliberately sucked dry since already the late 1970s. The Super-8 boom allured the locusts. http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Eastman-Kodak-RVW5992419.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirk DeJonghe Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 The current version of 7222 has a very different smell than before, the image looks more like a Plus-X that a Double-X with deeper blacks. Running sensitograms we had to reduce the development time a bit. The stock could very well be made by another company. I have run Double-X for more than 30 years and I can identify it from color or Plus-X by smell in the darkroom. Anyway, the images look very good and that is what counts; Here is a sad youtube video: https://youtu.be/JDzQ1gx71EI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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