Comments on: The State of Kodak at PhotoPlus Broke My Heart

By: BelieveInFilm Gordon

BelieveInFilm Gordon — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 02:48:00 +0000

I feel for you. My experience in a room with Kodak flacs would have been both awkward and depressing. The saddest part of the story is that they don’t have the cash necessary to last long enough for a sale of the film division.

By: Daniel Lee

Daniel Lee — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 05:10:00 +0000

“Support for film is just about extinct. A few more years, and just
finding a place to buy fixer is going to be a treasure hunt. In five to
seven years, it will become like the search for Atlantis.”

Calling bs. This line has been going around for a while, well it’s been a decade now, the doomsday prophets have consistently been wrong, as it’s still around long after it’s was predicted and then called dead, yet still here. Their Film division is the only profitable part. But only enough to sustain it as a small company, or small section, it needs to be sold off to someone else, and away from Perez’ sinking ship.

http://www.harmantechnology.com/Blog/tabid/60/Default.aspx?tabid=60&EntryID=71

By: Elisa Bryant Jones

Elisa Bryant Jones — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 05:05:00 +0000

Film is the only profitable part of Kodak, their digital business and everything else sinks money like a black hole. The Film division can’t prop up the much larger loss-making part of the company.

By: Becky Maxwell

Becky Maxwell — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Hello, I have for years taken photos of the trick-or-treaters with my Poloroid Instant camera.I was called the “Picture Lady”.Imagine my distress when I could no longer find the the film and discovered the film was no longer being produced.I was so sad as I had kids that had been coming for years and now were bringing their kids and I had to tell them I could not take any more pictures because I couldn’t find the film.This year I discovered the Polaroid 300 Instant camera and I was so excited!! I had a great Halloween, taking pics of the kids again. They were thrilled and I am again the “picture Lady”.

Thank you for your great products. Becky Maxwell brace13@mail,com

By: Mike M

Mike M — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:05:00 +0000

”Unfortunately getting some of the younsters today to try film is like trying to get a young child to eat broccoli”

Except in this case, the broccoli is less and less nutritional, and takes twice the time to cook as (neu-broccoli), and doesn’t let you add as many flavors and ingredients to it, aka is much less versatile.

And the less of a desire to try it, isn’t as much a haughty sense of disregard for where they came from, but just like you “old timers” who don’t use flash bulbs anymore, just because it’s where photography lighting came from.

While there is nothing like it, digital is “pretty damn close” these days, as close as we will get, at least for a few years, have you even seen the images from a D800 and D3200 in larger prints?

Tell me that doesn’t look gosh damn close to 35mm film, and tell me the truth.

And sure, it’ll be hard for Medium Format digital to rival their film brethren, because let’s be honest, the larger the film, generally better results are attained.

But even with that, it’s all up to the photographer, and his or her vision, in the end.

One day there will be people shooting mainly smaller rangefinder-esque cameras, and smaller 2x and 2.7x sensors, and there will be someone of your age, but from the newer generations complaining how people don’t use the digital broccoli of their day, ie the 1.5x and fx digital cameras. And life will go on.

By: Roman

Roman — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:48:00 +0000

If you say so… you must be right.

By: kipper12

kipper12 — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:32:00 +0000

you really have no clue….

By: kipper12

kipper12 — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:31:00 +0000

kodak is a company who has polluted the environment for decades.. there is nothing to be sorry about.

you all should have a look behind the obvious….

By: Derek Vonk

Derek Vonk — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:15:00 +0000

thanx for the great post, though a hard read it is!

By: David Arthur

David Arthur — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:17:00 +0000

I wish I knew more film… I took a photography class in college and we developed maybe one image that the instructor took. I would love to find someone’s old dark room they don’t want anymore, but I just don’t have the money or the room. I’d rather spend the money on some more reliable equipment that I would bring on a job, and it would take a lot of money and practice for me to feel comfortable taking a film camera on the job.

as far as Kodak goes, businesses need to progress. The longest lasting companies and the most successful businesses are always changing and always innovative. New things need to come, and if Kodak’s only chance is hope, then we just aren’t going to see Kodak last long. And considering the impact the company had on the industry….it is sad. You’re right.