Re: (Fwd) Re: Times and Temperatures

["Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

On 29 Oct 96 at 20:17, Peter Ray wrote:

> Cor Breukel wrote:
> 
> >Ps I heard that D76 will be taken out of production, is this true?
> 
> I don't know but D76 isn't a very unique product. I believe there is more
> than one nearly identical products by other manufacturers including Ilford
> and if they did drop it I bet "replacement" products would be forthcoming.
> What frightens me is the possibility of Kodak dropping b&w IR film. An
> earlier post mentioned that it had remained unchanged because of a military
> agreement. That makes perfect sense and if it is true and maybe if it
> isn't, Kodak seems like the kind of company that would drop it all of a
> sudden. Does anyone know anything more about this? 

I hardly believe that HIE is on the same edge as Ektachrome IR. Artsy 
sales of the first outnumbers the latter by far, and that is a pretty 
strong indication that Kodak would be a fool to discontinue this 
film, on the same moment that Ilford successively launches a pseudo-IR 
film, and plans to extend that in both MF and near-IR.

> Is there any news on the Russian films? 

Sortof....I did get a brief confirmation, but not from the same enthousiast
guy as I spoke with on the Kina. Yet it also mentiones the freezing
requirement, although I wonder whether this might be because they
have scientific consistency in mind. I just started poking and
digging; there is no adventure like trying to get hold of the right
people and information in a Russian factory....8-))
Perhaps I should ask to ship the films frozen in a block of ice....;-))

Stay tuned, I won't let them go into a winter sleep....mmm....maybe
the film can only be shipped economically in midst of winter?....8-))

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