(Fwd) [Kodachrome] Re: Specialized Film

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

Any comments on this posting, originating from the Kodachrome 
Mailinglist?:

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Date:          Fri, 11 Dec 1998 23:52:34 -0500
From:          Jeff Rankin-Lowe <sirius@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject:       [Kodachrome] Re: Specialized Film

Rod Sage wrote:

> The figure of 200,000 rolls of Kodachrome got me to thinking. I wonder
> what the sales volume for the new E-6 Ektachrome Infrared is. It is such
> a specialized film and at $18 a pop the sales have got to be slim. I'm
> sure Kodak spent a bundle on research and developement. I've been
> tempted to try it, but it is not a film that many would use on a regular
> basis unless for scientific research. Same goes for Chemiluminescent
> film. Do the sales volume justify keeping them or is there a group of
> people demanding them? Check out www.kodak.com and you will see many
> products which would account for less than .1% in total sales.
> RDS

I believe that the military and also companies that do aerial remote sensing
(such as mapping, crop surveys, mineral prospecting, etc) use a lot of
colour infrared film.

A former Kodak rep told me that colour infrared (the previous E-4 version)
was going to be discontinued. I didn't see it myself, but others told me
they'd heard the same thing. A lot of people who like colour infrared film
promptly stocked up. Once its inventory was cleared out, Kodak announced the
introduction of the new E-6 version.

I don't have any of the E-4 version, but if I had stocked up I'd be bloody
annoyed with Kodak. (I already am due to their shoddy Kodachrome processing,
but I posted about that previously and won't get into that again here.)

Jeff Rankin-Lowe


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Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
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