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Kodak emerges from Chapter 11. Motion Picture Film on the agenda.

Film gonna roll for another 10 years… :)

I might be doing 6K Vision 3 500T vs 6K Dragon tests later this year.
 
As much as would love to see some of that old stills stock back on the shelves (Kodachrome, Tri-X, Tech Pan), the images I'm seeing from Dragon tell me this might be all a bit late. Man that thing looks gorgeous (taking care not to swear).
 
It's nice to see some positive news for motion picture film for once, perhaps there is a chance that I will make it as a filmmaker in time to shoot something on film with anamorphic lenses after all.
 
Kodak also has $800 million in the bank and have signed contracts with six major studios to provide film for them for the next year or two. We'll see how long they can hang on.

Film may have one foot in the grave, but I'm glad to see they're hanging on.
 
Don't forget this "Eastman Kodak Company and Kingsbury Corporation have entered into an agreement to produce next-generation touch screen sensors to support the touch sensor module market that is predicted to grow to $32 billion by 2018."
 
I'm glad for this, Kodak is part of my generation, it's great to see it fighting not giving up, although what happened in the film industry last few months (a lot of theaters turn to digital cinema, throw away their film projectors, and we saw DRAGON) will defenitely make Kodak battle much worse.
I need to see 8k film projection, great texture, and stunning images from film ASAP, so we "film makers" once again benefit from the high competetion.
 
raufzaza said:
I need to see 8k film projection, great texture, and stunning images from film ASAP, so we "film makers" once again benefit from the high competetion.
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Go to a great Imax theater and watch a real Imax project shot and projected on film. It can be fairly impressive.
 
Marc Wielage said:
Go to a great Imax theater and watch a real Imax project shot and projected on film. It can be fairly impressive.
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From what I've been told, the remaining 70mm IMAX setups will be dismantled once each location has their 4K projector setups ready to install next year.
 
I'm happy we still have the Kodak option.
Too bad that the whole industry is going to loose their knowledge (mechanical, AC, chemistry, scanner) as film won't be any more NR1 money maker in motion picture.

Pat
 
Hollywood Studios have begun to broker an agreement with Kodak to do bulk purchases of Kodak film to keep film alive. Steven Spielberg (Panavision), JJ Abrams (Panavision and IMAX), Christopher Nolan (Panavision and IMAX), Quentin Tarentino (Panavision), Judd Apatow (Panavision), and others went to the American studios they work with and pushed for them to approach Kodak to purchase an as of yet unknown amount of film annually to keep film from disappearing as digital cinema cameras have become the norm worldwide, with the few film processing labs left mostly outside the United States.
 
Virtually all of the films we have loved up until about a decade ago were crafted using this incredible medium. I will probably never use it again but I'm glad it is there for artists that desire it.
 
NHK years ago developed holographic film. Hundreds times the recording density. They need 16k-64k sensors to do holographic filming. So. there might be life in film for ten years until we can develop quantum cellular automata processing units, or holographic solutions, to cope with the throughput at lower heat and power consumption, and develop storage solutions needed.
 
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