Yes, Bob. Photokina is important and, more importantly, FUN! But I'll be busy for the rest of the year on the product and corporate matters.
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Yes, Bob. Photokina is important and, more importantly, FUN! But I'll be busy for the rest of the year on the product and corporate matters.
Ed - Kickstarter in general is excellent, but not for purchasing big machines. Obviously, investors are needed but I am not at liberty to talk about what plans may or may not exist to sell Common...
Re: Sam Hiser is still working on the New55 technology
There are a few good thoughts here that I can take on-board. Some I'll leave alone ;-)
Some people talk as if New55 PN were just another product, and I wish they would be just a little more...
Chrism - Drag marks from the sprocket holes could be from the pour. The development in R3 happens very fast within the first part of the first minute and is mostly complete within two minutes. You...
Frank,
That would have served no purpose, given the size of the goal; and we would have discouraged it if anyone would have suggested it.
It is possible to get caught-out doing that because...
The discussion seems to be about what can get New55 FILM across the goal-line at this late point in the campaign. As planned, it's going to be the small-bidders.
Kickstarter limits on reward...
It's not permitted by Kickstarter. See the Guidelines ...
https://www.kickstarter.com/help/guidelines
Traditional US securities law has forbidden offering shares to non-"accredited" (read...
We've stated the qualifying off-the-shelf emulsions that work or are likely to work and what the defining characteristics are. This gets decided when we go to Mobberley and to Rochester and to...
Witold-
If by 'equity' you mean something like common stock ownership in a company, neither the United States Securities and Exchange Commission nor Kickstarter rules permit offering securities...
Good point, Steve.
-Sam Hiser
Here's another nice article from Kickstarter themselves dealing with the notorious "Trough" which is common to every project ...
"Trends in Pricing and Duration"
The interest in Kickstarter is understandable here. They've published some interesting data on performance there. About 43% of projects have been successfully funded. Of projects that reach 20% of...
Thank you, everyone, for your good wishes.
The New55 FILM Kickstarter campaign came about because the expression of interest was emphatic and persistent. The number of people was significant and...
Thank you, Tim, for your encouragement.
I'll call you. We need everybody.
-Sam
new55project.com
John you bring the Dickel, I'll bring the Laphroaig (18!).
-Sam
new55project.com
Hi Mark_S -
This will work with the same packaging used in the New55 FILM project. We've discussed the off-the-shelf "readyload" concept and it's an attractive idea.
-Sam Hiser
project CEO...
Ansel said it was good enough.
-Sam
That's correct, blevblev.
-Sam Hiser
project CEO
new55project.com
Good point, Drew.
Couldn't have said it better, myself.
-Sam Hiser
project CEO
new55project.com
Hi Marc -
It's great to see your enthusiasm!
If we are successful in a crowd-funding through Kickstarter this Spring, we're still not guaranteed "sustainable production."
It would be...
Hi John -
We're doing our best to bring New55 FILM to life. It's a complex project and will require a lot of money and a lot of luck. At this point, the choice of film is only one of several...
If you intend to master the fine print, both will come in handy.
For contact printing, in order to gain flexibility in sizing the internegative, digital output (onto Pictorico using QTR on the...
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1) For landscape, you'll want a Crown Graphic. The focal plane shutter and larger body of the Speed makes it much heavier (though Speeds are great cameras too for focal plane rangefinder...