Seen on a mail­ing list:

“On demand” could con­ceiv­ably include any film that Kodak has ever man­u­fac­tured. Some­one in the audi­ence asked the inevitable ques­tion: “Includ­ing Kodachrome?” [Bev­erly Paster­czyk of East­man Kodak Co.‘s] answer: “Yes, includ­ing Kodachrome”. She added that while small runs of Kodachrome were unlikely, it was not out of the ques­tion, since they have had numer­ous inquiries.

To the ques­tion “How could this be made pos­si­ble?” her answer was intrigu­ing. “Vol­ume is the answer. Con­sumer groups of large num­bers of indi­vid­u­als could peti­tion for the return of a spe­cific film. This would include not only large com­pa­nies, but also indi­vid­u­als banded together such as cam­era clubs, espe­cially those with a large enough base such that they could col­lec­tively join on a national or even inter­na­tional basis”.

The ques­tion of pro­cess­ing isn’t really addressed here. I seem to remem­ber read­ing that Dwayne’s sold their pro­cess­ing equip­ment after they stopped pro­cess­ing Kodachrome. How­ever, if that were dealt with, it occurs to me that another com­pany could con­ceiv­ably order a pro­duc­tion run and then resell it, like the way that com­pa­nies buy graph­ics cards from a man­u­fac­turer and then resell them with their own com­pany name.

Kodachrome Ends 74-Year Run.

[The Online Pho­tog­ra­pher]

Kodachrome is my favorite color film. The patent for it has to be long-expired by now, so maybe we’ll get lucky and some­one else will start mak­ing it (under a dif­fer­ent name), the way that Fuji makes Polaroid film.

Birds in the water at Santa Mon­ica Beach.

Recently I’ve been shoot­ing more Kodachrome.

Fujifilm’s killer medium for­mat film cam­era. It has long been only a pro­to­type. We first heard about at last year’s PMA trade show and were able to see a wooden ver­sion of it at Pho­tok­ina in Sep­tem­ber 2008. But now, it’s offi­cial. Fuji­film is weeks away from releas­ing its GF670 Pro­fes­sional medium for­mat film cam­era. Here is our full arti­cle about it.

Out­side of Japan, the cam­era should be released under the Voigt­lander Bessa III 667 name, which Cosina will dis­trib­ute. [The British Jour­nal of Pho­tog­ra­phy]

The ear­lier announce­ment had already raised my inter­est. From the addi­tional infor­ma­tion, it looks like it will be about the same size as a Leica, and smaller when folded. Still no price, but I’ll prob­a­bly buy one when they’re released.

A few weeks ago I learned about Kodak’s new C-41 film, Ektar 100. It’s out now–Samy’s in LA had a big pile of it. I bought a cou­ple of rolls to try out.