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Under the circumstances, it's interesting that the client wouldn't settle for digital inkjet or Giclee prints. Now that's commitment to the traditional way. Nice. And good to know all your appendages remain intact
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I hope this all gets sorted out soon, so when the dust settles we can just relax and shoot whatever film we want, including Kodak. Svend |
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Not a case that he wouldn't settle for digi prints, but for over ten years they had run these History reenactments twice a year, and I had photographed every one in black and white, on film and printed in the darkroom and they decided that they would rather keep to the tradition, that inkjet or Giclee prints would look out of place, their words not mine, as the next one would be photographed on film and printed in the darkroom, I have the next in September and needless to say I will use Foma film and not Kodak. I love local history and this time of the year I would say that the majority of the photography I do for myself is around heritage sites and events, and if I can get paid for doing it so much the better, Professionaly I work very part time now, only doing something I get a lot of enjoyment out of and this fits the bill for me
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I've had a response to my enquiry to Thomas Mooney (profilm@kodakalaris.com) about the 6 un-exposed pro-packs (30 rolls) of TMY-2 that I have that fall within the batches identified as problematic. I quote: "As of the beginning of this year, we’ve made some modifications to the backing paper which should minimize the potential for this type of issue moving forward. The first TMY-2 product made with this paper is emulsion 0153. Please send me your address, and I will send you six (6) replacement ProPacks of T-Max 400 spooled with the new paper." Last edited by Jerry Bodine; 24th May 2016 at 12:41 AM. |
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Just a quick update.
Kodak Alaris has given excellent service. They take the complaint seriously, responded within 48hrs and appear to be treating the U.S. and Europe equally. So while I'm not happy about losing my photo's, I'm very satisfied with the way that my complaint has been handled.
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Marty, that's great to hear. There seems to be a lot of anti-Kodak vitriol on the web fora. It's a puzzle to me as to why. Almost all of it seems to have no basis of fact or experience. Those who DO actually have dealings with the company seem to come away pleased at their response and service. Go figure....
Glad that this is working out for you. Svend PS -- I just ordered a bunch of TX and TMY in 120...I will check the batch nos. to make sure they are good, but I do not intend to stop using Kodak films just because of this one blip in their QC. |
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From all I read it would appear that Kodak Alaris is responding to this problem well, just unfortunate that their answer is to use fainter print so it becomes as difficult to use in red window cameras as Ilford, it should be usable, with great care, and I might at sometime give the Yellow box film another chance,
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Back to the red window for a moment -- I got my Isolette back from Certo6 recently and used it for the first time this weekend. I still really hate the red window in that camera. I used the little LED loupe in low light, and it was better -- barely usable; still a pain in the derrière. For comparison, I used HP5 again just to see how it would work out (and I didn't want to use a different film for this outing for image quality reasons). Next rolls will be Kodak or Fuji, as the Ilford numbers are still too pale even under the lighted loupe.
BTW, Jurgen K. did a great job on the camera, and for a very reasonable cost -- new bellows, CLA, light seal, and replaced a cracked lens element; all for about US$130 incl. return shipping. The bellows are a wonderful red-brown colour, which looks terrific with this old camera (I can post a pic if anyone is interested). I'm looking forward to seeing how the films turn out now that all is fixed. Svend Last edited by Svend; 13th June 2016 at 12:11 PM. |
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