NPR: How Kodak’s Shirley Cards Set Photography’s Skin-Tone Standard. An interesting tidbit of the history of photography: Kodak printing calibration that was setting a skin-tone standard when in reality there is none.
Tag: Kodak
Goodbye Kodak BW 400CN
Kodak Alaris is discontinuing the BW 400CN. A very nice film meant to shoot Black & White and have it processed in a regular one hour minilab as it is a C-41 process film. Now that one hour minilabs are an endangered specie and that it is much easier to find Black & White chemistry… Continue reading Goodbye Kodak BW 400CN
Kodak to sell film and imaging division…
Kodak announced the plan to sell the film and imaging division to the UK Kodak Pension Plan in a move to settled debt and going toward exiting chapter 11 The question is whether the pension plan will deal with this asset as the film business or just as financial value? One would think the Kodak… Continue reading Kodak to sell film and imaging division…
Kodak DCS
The Kodak DCS is Kodak 1991 Digital SLR based on a Nikon F3. Kodak was pioneer in the area and Nikonweb interview James McGarvey who designed these. Six models were priced from $20,000 to $25,000. A total of 987 units were sold from 1991 to 1994. But: Many people in Kodak were reluctant. Some of… Continue reading Kodak DCS
What Kodak could still learn from Polaroid
Christopher Bonanos write for the Washington Post: What Kodak could still learn from Polaroid. He goes on to explain the mistakes of Polaroid and what Kodak should learn from that to survive and keep film coming. The key argument is right here: Yes, the remaining buyers of film are weighing this technology against digital methods… Continue reading What Kodak could still learn from Polaroid
Kodak to sell film division?
It has been rumored that Kodak is trying to sell its still profitable film division. What worries is that beside Kodak and Fujifilm, who makes colour film? I like film photography in colour. I do love colour. If I can’t buy anymore film, I’ll be very sad. Time to stock up, and hope that whoever… Continue reading Kodak to sell film division?
Price hike on Kodak film
After the discontinuation of Ektachrome, Kodak is hiking the price of film, 15% across the board. (via Amateur Photographer) That was expected I guess. It is also the price hike of 2004 on Fujifilm slide film that made me buy a 20D.
Goodbye Ektachrome
In Kodak bankruptcy reorganisation, the announcement of Ektachrome being discountinued mark the end of the Kodak slide film, after discontinuing Kodachrome in 2009 and stopping development at the end of 2010. The won’t stop producing E-6 chemistry though. This is very hard on slide film shooters. Now the only source for colour reversible film is… Continue reading Goodbye Ektachrome
Kodak camera
Bryan Jones comes back on what Kodak represented to the sad realisation of what it has become. The sad part of this is that Kodak is another example of the a company that fell from dramatic heights and has gone from a name that everybody knew to one that does not have nearly the brand… Continue reading Kodak camera
Kodak to abandon cameras
After inventing the digital camera in 1975, and resisting it heavily, now Kodak is abandoning the digital camera market all together during their bankruptcy, to reorganize, refocus in order to exit as smaller company. They won’t stop making disposable film cameras though, which is part of the film division. Source Kodak press release and C|Net.… Continue reading Kodak to abandon cameras