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   I use Fujifilm :-)

   

   throbi, Apr 18th, 2006 @ 4:10am

   
   

   As a film-fanatic I'm sad to hear this. Hope that Fuji will not do the same.

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   dani, Apr 18th, 2006 @ 5:42am

   
   

   with rising costs and declining demand, I wouldn't be surprised to see other film manufacturers follow suit...I'm more concerned with: "the group’s increase affects digital and conventional offset printing plates"

   commercial printing prices are already pretty expensive...I may have to invest in a higher quality printer if commercial prices get much higher!

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   because analog is analog

   

   Doug, Apr 18th, 2006 @ 7:33am

   
   

   It'll be interesting to see how this affects the budgets of motion pictures (which use the equivalent of a roll of film per second) and the popularity of HD 24p.

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   kodak already stopped making many darkroom supplie

   

   cheryl, Apr 18th, 2006 @ 7:48am

   
   

   this is no surprise.

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   Too Bad

   

   Wolff000, Apr 18th, 2006 @ 7:54am

   
   

   I love film and it looks so much better than digitl crap. Unless you can afford a very nice camera that is but I don't have 2k to drop on a new camera. I'm an amatateur photgrapher so this really hurts since I only use kodak. They already charge way too much for B&W film and it costs twice the color stuff to get processed. Too bad I can't make my own film.

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   Anonymous Coward, Apr 18th, 2006 @ 8:12am

   
   

   Silver prices are rising, so their hands are tied. No magic for Fuji or others -- it is a commodity, after all.

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   Re: Too Bad

   

   Anonymous Coward, Apr 18th, 2006 @ 9:49am

   
   

   B/W aost more because less of the silver is recovered. In colcor processing none of the silve is left on the negative, slide, or print, so much of it can be reclaimed from the solutions. This is not true of b/w

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   Re:

   

   admin, Apr 18th, 2006 @ 9:57am

   
   

   Silver was $6-7 last year, lower in 2004. Its now over $13. Ouch.

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   Film

   

   Bob, Apr 18th, 2006 @ 9:58am

   
   

   Well, silver prices would only affect black and white film. Slides and color prints have a totally different process. Wolffoo, there are better films than Kodak. I love Ilford for B/W. Digital SLRs are coming down in price as the manufacurers delve deeper into more pixels and better features and faster frame rates. Nikon has come out with the D50, Costco has a kit for about $600 includes a nice lens and other stuff, 6.1 MP and the same focusing and metering as found in the D100 or D1. Use the built in popup flash OR your killer Speedlight in the hot shoe. no need to spend $1000s for good digital. Granted, all my best color prints come from slide film. But soon there will really be no need for film, except for those who love the process of making art on film. I have my own dedicated B/W darkroom that I have not used in a couple years now. Maybe I'll sell all my gear for money for a new digital SLR... Hmmm.

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    Not quite Bob!

    

    Jeroen Wijnands, Apr 18th, 2006 @ 10:05am

    
    

    PRices for digital SLRs do go down but Nikon has decided to change flash interfacing on their digital series. Meaning that your trusty old flashgun that worked very well with your old nikon now is reduced to being any old standard flash. They changed from ttl to iTTL and only offer $150+ flash guns that speak that.

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    Sell your Kodak Stock!

    

    Anonymous Bum, Apr 18th, 2006 @ 11:10am

    
    

    It is funny that the discussion is about Kodak's smaller market instead of their real big market (dental and medical imaging).
    
    Kodak is desperately trying to save their company by buying up small practice management software and digital sensor companies because their customers(doctors and clinics) are buying digital products from other vendors instead of their film.
    
    Kodak ignored the digital revolution the same way Xerox ignored personal computing. Buying crappy companies and putting the kodak name on it will not help em.

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    "some amount of success"? I don't think so

    

    Matt Mendick, Apr 18th, 2006 @ 8:19pm

    
    

    Kodak is not inching into the digital photography market with "some amount of success" - They're number 1 when it comes to digital camera sales. They are simply not making enough money off film in order to justify leaving the price where it is currently. I'm from Rochester, NY (where kodak is headquartered) and where they used to make all the film. They're knocking down vacant buildings on their property simply to save tax money - they can't hold themselves up anymore unless they raise the cost of film. On a second note, digital cameras may not be, in some cases, up to snuff when it comes to their quality vs. the quality of film prints. But, most of the (common comsumer) 5 MP cameras out there are good enough to make good prints, and are especially affordable for the quality they deliver. Bob's right - you can get an extremly good digital setup for not a lot of money, and if you don't want to travel down that road, simply eat the cost of higher priced film. All prices will go up on all goods eventually, especially if they're a fleeting item, like film.

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    I'm not moved

    

    Rob S., Apr 19th, 2006 @ 1:56am

    
    

    I fail to be concerned about rising film prices. I learnt photography on an old Kodak SLR that used to belong to my dad, and loved it at the time. But having using a digital camera for a few years, there is no way that I could ever go back. Even if film cameras produce pictures of higher quality, this will change in time as technology advances. Film's days are numbered.

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    man, I grow tired of the Kodak bashing

    

    Mike G., Apr 19th, 2006 @ 3:38am

    
    

    Everytime the subject of Kodak comes up, someone always claims that Kodak missed the digital boat. Kodak has been in the digital game from day one. A lot of the technology we use in digital today originated with Kodak! I just acquired boxes and boxes of old photography magazines from the 90's on up to a couple of years ago. In each of these, Kodak obviously had a large presence in the growing digital market. Someone, please tell me where Kodak ignored the digital revolution. Name a product in digital photography that Kodak hasn't taken a stab at or helped innovate.

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    Kodak Problem?

    

    Joseph, Apr 21st, 2006 @ 5:35pm

    
    

    Hi...I am a student. I am doing a business report about the affect of digital camera to Kodak's negative film ( Kodak's Profil)....Could you give me some information and your opinion about it please?
    Thank

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    Re: "some amount of success"? I don't think so

    

    Matt Mendick strangely enough, Jun 2nd, 2006 @ 4:36am

    
    

    My name is Matt Mendick too... that's pretty strange

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    Kodak SLR Analog

    

    Siddharth Fadnis, Dec 2nd, 2007 @ 10:29pm

    
    

    I have my dad's Kodak Analog SLR. Is there any way I can sell it?? IF anyone knows please do let me know. Thanks.

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