Went to buy some and its gone, everywhere (Freestyle, Badger, B&H). Did not see it listed on Kodaks website as a discontinued film so I called Jeff at Badger, and sure enough, its adios. Looks like Kodak is cleaning house.
Went to buy some and its gone, everywhere (Freestyle, Badger, B&H). Did not see it listed on Kodaks website as a discontinued film so I called Jeff at Badger, and sure enough, its adios. Looks like Kodak is cleaning house.
That is a shame. It had a beautiful palette.
Does Kodak have any 4x5 slide film at all now?
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
--A=B by Petkovšek et. al.
It is not a good sign if Kodak decided to take away the most saturated film in 4x5. I guess that 120 and 35mm will soon follow. I am wondering whether the E100VS users will take the Velvia route or just use the E100G (what else is left in E6 from Kodak? - the EPP and ?).
Still - it makes me wondering wondering wether the Kodak tries to end the E6 films alltpgether - they have not introduced any updates on their E6 emulsions in last few years - quite contrary to C41 (Ektar 100 and the new Portra 400)
Matus
I really dislike Kodak.
Is Fuji behaving any better recently?Originally Posted by matthew klos
Matus
Seems to be a scarcity of 4x5 E-6 films, looking at B&H, Adorama, uniquephoto- either Fuji is going to be dropping some, or we're just at a point where supply is about to be replenished. Seems to be some Quickloads of this or that, maybe a bit of Provia here or 100F there. Hope this is not the other shoe dropping- I figured it was still years away. Glad I've rediscovered that I actually prefer B&W for the much of my work
Of course there is still Ektar 100 and Portra 400.
Please buy hundreds of boxes of E100G immediately! ;-)
Seriously, if E6 goes the way of the dinosaur, I'm really going to be disappointed. I started 8x10 to contact print b&w but quickly got sidetracked once I fell in love with 8x10 slides. Now I shoot more E6 than anything else in large format.
I always thought it would be the labs that would give up first. Now I think it is going to be the film makers.
As a side note, the Kodak USA site no longer lists E100G in 8x10 format. Yikes. I just ordered some to stock up.
This is not good news. For E6 I prefer E100G but I hope it does not go the same way.
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