[Leica] Re:Newest Kodak emulsions - Free Film

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

G Hopkinson said:
Subject: RE: [Leica] Re:Newest Kodak emulsions - Free Film


> Thanks Chris, for the information. Until fairly recently we had a Kodak 
> production facility within Australia, too. <<<<<<<,,

Hi Hoppy,
You might find this interesting, that during the Commonwealth Games in 
Auckland, N.Z 1990 all our Kodachrome film was flown to Australia every 
evening, souped, mounted and returned the next morning to the Media Press 
Centre for us to pick-up and edit!

All E-6 type films were processed in Auckland on about 2 hour basis.

ted






Some paper
> certainly was made here. I don't recall the specifics on what film. The 
> USA vs grey market situation is an interesting one. Of
> course not to suggest that imported film in USA might be inferior. Rather 
> a marketing issue, I imagine. This particular film is
> actually marked Made in USA. It is EBX 135. So I presume it has been 
> around for a while (at least long enough to run out of date
> here). Just not something I have noticed previously. Very likely because I 
> use all Fujifilm products currently. Regarding the few
> rolls I got, it was 20% of its marked retail price (and 8% of the Velvia 
> 100F I later located). So I'll use it up on non-vital
> stuff.
> Cheers
> Hoppy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
> [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Christopher Williams
> Sent: Thursday, 19 October 2006 09:05
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: [Leica] Re:Newest Kodak emulsions - Free Film
>
> In the US we would call that "Vivid Colour" gray market film. Film 
> produced
> in India, Malaysia, or China not meant to be sold overseas. As Kodak and
> Fuji film/chemistry prices rose over the past decade many smaller local
> shops started buying gray market as they could not longer afford to buy in
> large bulk from Kodak or Fuji. Not trying to start a USA vs Gray argument 
> at
> all.
>
> Chris
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "G Hopkinson"
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Newest Kodak emulsions - Free Film
>
>
> However I haven't paid close attention to the Kodak activity recently. 
> This
> week on a short
>> break, I exhausted all of the Velvia in my bag and had to locate film
> sellers in a small capital city. The friendly Kodak dealer
>> sold me all of their EliteChrome for a pittance (being very short dated).
> There were several rolls marked Vivid Colour, which I
>> hadn't seen previously.
>
>> Cheers
>> Hoppy
>
>
>
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