Petition against Production Stop of Kodachrome 40

July 8, 2005

As far as we know, there are 4 petitions against the production stop of K40: a French one of the organization ALICC with 270 signers, the fimshooting.com petition with far more than 1,000 signers, the internet petition http://www.petitiononline.com/k40/petition.html with 4,436 signatures and the schmalfilm petition. Up to now, the signers of "schmalfilm" (small format) represent the amount of 15014 Kodachrome 40 cartridges per year!

There are first results of those petitions. There was a meeting with French Super 8 groups with the European head of Entertainment Imaging, Thierry Perronnet. There, schmalfilm could present the results of the test, comparing K40 and E64T. The reaction of all people - they were more than disappointed. Mr. Perronnet asked for the two rolls of film to ship them to Rochester.

There will be also a talk with German representatives of Kodak on Monday. The whole company, even in Rochester, is surprised about the great protest and the negative feedback in the internet. This is no good communication strategy for Kodak.