Re: Kodak Pre-discloses Plans To Discontinue Slide Projectors and

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From: Peter Marshall (petermarshall@cix.co.uk)
Date: 09/17/03-05:54:59 AM Z

Pros no longer use vast quantities of transparency film by Kodak standards, as many areas of
the pro market have moved either to digital or to colour neg rather than shooting assignments
on transparency. Stock increasingly comes either from digital or scanned negs, many
publications will only accept digital images now. If you want to show many people slides
now you need to take your own light box, and if they like the work are likely to ask for
it on CD. Quite a few pro labs no longer process E6.

So you can take this announcement as yet another sign of the forthcoming "end of 35mm slide
film." Not tomorrow, but in a few years.

Kodak projectors were widely used by professionals involved in multimedia and also for
educational and business presentations. Here at least most amateurs used cheaper equipment.
All these uses now run from notebooks with projectors or attached to large screen displays,
slides are getting pretty rare for such things, despite the better quality they can offer.

Peter Marshall

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> Greg,
>
> Discontinuation of slide *projection* equipment by Kodak has nothing to
> do
> with "the end of 35mm slide film." The huge amateur film market has gone
> over to color negative, but vast quantities of 35mm transparency films
> are
> used by professionals for all sorts of assignment and stock photography.
> These slides are never projected, just edited on a lightbox and scanned
> for
> reproduction. If Kodak gets out of projection equipment it's no threat
> to
> slide film production. It just means that videos and digital projection
> of
> still-picture computer files have taken over the audio-visual tasks that
> used to be the bastion of the Ektagraphic projector.
>
> ---Carl
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