Anyone Here Know Whom @ Kodak To Contact Directly Concerning Film > Ektachrome Specifically?

[DF]

So i'm on the Kodak website trying to "get-through" checking off squares where the 'crosswalk is' or which ones have a 'motorcycle' in them and getting nowhere, nor can't tell If my message has or hasn't advanced.
I will tell you all here at Photrio the reason why - but only after I get through, because I think I have a terrific idea....

 

[MattKing]

Is this for still film?
If so, Kodak Alaris deal with all customer contact. They have the worldwide rights for distribution and marketing of still films, and are charged with any "end user" concerns.
Here is their website contact link: https://corporate.kodakalaris.com/contact#film
The manufacturer, Eastman Kodak has no customer support resources for still film - their only customer is Kodak Alaris.
If your idea is about motion picture film, here are the contact links for sales information, although they are mostly set up for just business to business transactions: https://www.kodak.com/en/motion/page/worldwide-film-suppliers/
Neither entity has much of an outward facing presence when it comes to individual users.

 

[DF]

Here is their website contact link: https://corporate.kodakalaris.com/contact#film

Yes I've done all that about half a dozen times with the "I'm not a robot" - then the whole check off which squares the such & such are in over and over again.
Kodak needs to check this out....

 

[mshchem]

New owner. Probably hasn't messed with website etc.

 

[mshchem]

Secondly, I would suspect Ektachrome isn't high on the agenda. Too much turmoil.

 

[koraks]

Yes I've done all that about half a dozen times with the "I'm not a robot" - then the whole check off which squares the such & such are in over and over again.

There's phone numbers on their website for both the UK and US head office. I'd give them a call.

 

[tj121491]

 

[MattKing]

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That is the email I used in the past - I had forgotten about it!

 

[DF]

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I'll get right to it...

 

[Nitroplait]

Here is their website contact link: https://corporate.kodakalaris.com/contact#film

Yes I've done all that about half a dozen times with the "I'm not a robot" - then the whole check off which squares the such & such are in over and over again.
Kodak needs to check this out....

Your IP address may appear suspicious. It sometimes happens when I am on a VPN.

 

[darkroommike]

If your nifty idea is for a new "niche product" for Kodak, forget it. They are not going to make an E-6 film that looks just like Kodachrome or whatever other swell product suggestion you may have.

 

[MattKing]

However if you have a good idea for another distribution option - i.e. are offering to become another local distributor customer for Kodak Alaris - then they will be happy to hear from you.
Eastman Kodak only sells to Kodak Alaris.
Kodak Alaris only sells to local distributors.
Local distributors sell to retail.
Retail sells to you.

 

[ChrisGalway]

However if you have a good idea for another distribution option - i.e. are offering to become another local distributor customer for Kodak Alaris - then they will be happy to hear from you.
Eastman Kodak only sells to Kodak Alaris.
Kodak Alaris only sells to local distributors.
Local distributors sell to retail.
Retail sells to you.

No wonder we get fleeced ... even a 30% markup at each stage (that would be low), means than Eastman Kodak's $10 film costs us consumers $21.79 (or $28.56 if EK also add 30%). I can see that one middleman is probably needed, even two, but they are making a fools of us with three.

 

[MultiFormat Shooter]

If your nifty idea is for a new "niche product" for Kodak, forget it. They are not going to make an E-6 film that looks just like Kodachrome or whatever other swell product suggestion you may have.

True, but I wish they'd an ISO 400/27° E-6 film. They did make Ektachrome 400, at one time, after all.

 

[MattKing]

No wonder we get fleeced ... even a 30% markup at each stage (that would be low), means than Eastman Kodak's $10 film costs us consumers $21.79 (or $28.56 if EK also add 30%). I can see that one middleman is probably needed, even two, but they are making a fools of us with three.

Eastman Kodak and all of its international subsidiaries was historically a massive international distribution and marketing corporation that had both manufacturing capacity and the capacity to get others to manufacture for it.
When the market imploded, it was the costs related to marketing and distribution that forced them into bankruptcy.
It costs far more to get a roll of film into a customer's hand then it does to actually make it. That has always been the case, no matter what the distribution model is.
The structure they use may not provide us photography enthusiasts with the least expensive film, but it does get film into the hands of way more people, all around the world, then something far smaller.

 

[ChrisGalway]

Eastman Kodak and all of its international subsidiaries was historically a massive international distribution and marketing corporation that had both manufacturing capacity and the capacity to get others to manufacture for it.
When the market imploded, it was the costs related to marketing and distribution that forced them into bankruptcy.
It costs far more to get a roll of film into a customer's hand then it does to actually make it. That has always been the case, no matter what the distribution model is.
The structure they use may not provide us photography enthusiasts with the least expensive film, but it does get film into the hands of way more people, all around the world, then something far smaller.

Marketing was ever thus.

 

[pentaxuser]

DF, I hope you eventually get through so we can learn what you want to present to EK via KA. We really have no idea what your idea is so all I can say is : Didn't Edison get a "Nero's thumbs down" answer from the gas mantel and paraffin lamp manufacturers about the electric light bulb

pentaxuser

 

[DF]

DF, I hope you eventually get through so we can learn what you want to present to EK via KA. We really have no idea what your idea is so all I can say is : Didn't Edison get a "Nero's thumbs down" answer from the gas mantel and paraffin lamp manufacturers about the electric light bulb

pentaxuser

'Just had some good dialogue with Thomas Mooney Director of Film Capture on possibilities of a warm version of Ektachrome 100.
Currently, it's a sorry no chance.

 

[dscottjorgenson]

'Just had some good dialogue with Thomas Mooney Director of Film Capture on possibilities of a warm version of Ektachrome 100.
Currently, it's a sorry no chance.

Or, how about a more-saturated version of E100 - aka E100VS, with a bit of a warm balance as an answer to Fujifilm Velvia - that would be my ideal! I know, just dreaming.

 

[BrianShaw]

'Just had some good dialogue with Thomas Mooney Director of Film Capture on possibilities of a warm version of Ektachrome 100.
Currently, it's a sorry no chance.

Did he have a recommendation for an appropriate warming filter?

 

[DF]

I was always happy with Ektachrome GX when it was out there. while I reguarded E 100VS as unecessary.

 

[DF]

Did he have a recommendation for an appropriate warming filter?

Yes he did - I always use a polarizer, so I'll try one of these 'warm' polarizer.

 

[MattKing]

'Just had some good dialogue with Thomas Mooney Director of Film Capture on possibilities of a warm version of Ektachrome 100.
Currently, it's a sorry no chance.

Glad to know that Mr. Mooney is still responsive - he was very good to deal with a few years earlier.
He is one of the Kodak "lifers" - people who started with Eastman Kodak or one of its international subsidiaries many years ago, and stayed with Kodak Alaris through all the massive changes.
KA still has a few repositories of that institutional "culture" - arguably one of the most valuable assets they received after the near destruction brought on by the collapse of the market and subsequent EK bankruptcy.

 

[Taylor Nankervis]

Or, how about a more-saturated version of E100 - aka E100VS, with a bit of a warm balance as an answer to Fujifilm Velvia

More saturated!?
To what means and end??

E100VS was one of the worse films to print Ilfochrome Classic from — on a par with the widely-panned Velvia 100f with its unbridled Vaudevillian palette.
VS's gaudy presentation was no better if projected. On the flip side, it did at least have beautiful crisp, clear whites and deep blacks — a characteristic that today's E100 also presents. What was Kodak thinking way back then?
Something about trying to knock the dominance of Velvia and its stablemates? A hypersaturated palette did it no favours for photographers who exposed it in a cavalier manner (e.g. very bright sun), and it fell out of favour very quickly in preference for Kodachrome, Velvia 50 / 100 and Provia 100f (another film that benefits from slight warming). I last used it, during a detailed review for the Australian Institute of Professional Photography, in August 2004.

Today, E100 is fine used with a polariser, either to moderate its palette or intensify it (in the right conditions in which the film delivers its best results!) — as one would do routinely with RVP and, particularly RDPIII. Another film just with a warm tinge doesn't make market or economic sense.

 

[laser]

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