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To film geeks everywhere, Kodak might as well have declared the death of color with its decision to discontinue its Kodachrome Super 8 film.
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- Why film's life may be shorter than proponents hope
- In the early stages of the digital revolution film proponents fed our denial with the comforting thought that the sharpness and color palette of premium films such as Kodachrome and Fujifilm's Velvia would ensure that film would always be in demand among artists and would survive in the market for them. Unfortunately, after reading a few chapters on how film is produced as an industrial product, I'm sad to report that the process involves so much specialized machinery and chemistry that it seems unlikely to me that it can be produced on a "boutique" basis. Only mega-companies like Kodak and its former film rivals had the financial, legal, and technical clout to run the types of plants required to produce this stuff at an acceptably consistent level of quality. I fear the life of film may come to an abrupt end in the coming decade rather than a gentle decline...
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- Why film's life may be shorter than proponents hope
- In the early stages of the digital revolution film proponents fed our denial with the comforting thought that the sharpness and color palette of premium films such as Kodachrome and Fujifilm's Velvia would ensure that film would always be in demand among artists and would survive in the market for them. Unfortunately, after reading a few chapters on how film is produced as an industrial product, I'm sad to report that the process involves so much specialized machinery and chemistry that it seems unlikely to me that it can be produced on a "boutique" basis. Only mega-companies like Kodak and its former film rivals had the financial, legal, and technical clout to run the types of plants required to produce this stuff at an acceptably consistent level of quality. I fear the life of film may come to an abrupt end in the coming decade rather than a gentle decline...
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