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Posted by Lars Pettersson (Member # 762) on May 05, 2009, 11:56 AM:

Wittners have visited Kodak in Colorado. Nice reading.

http://www.wittner-kinotechnik.de/info/kodak/kodak-en.php

Cheers
Lars

Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on May 06, 2009, 11:03 AM:

A big round of WOW for this -- thank you, Lars!

Posted by Gian Luca Mario Loncrini (Member # 1417) on May 06, 2009, 11:16 AM:

I do agree. Thanks Lars.

Posted by David Pannell (Member # 300) on May 06, 2009, 11:22 AM:

Excellent news! [Big Grin]

Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on May 06, 2009, 12:59 PM:

Superb!

Posted by Joe Taffis (Member # 4) on May 06, 2009, 08:10 PM:

thanks for posting this Lars! A great report by the Wittners, with nice pics too!

Posted by Dan Lail (Member # 18) on May 06, 2009, 08:48 PM:

Thanks, Lars,

Very impressive. What a clean working environment. I could use a couple of those machine in my basement. Muhaha! [Big Grin]

Posted by Lars Pettersson (Member # 762) on May 07, 2009, 02:11 AM:

Thanks for all kind replies,
I felt it gave a lot of hope also [Smile]

I can see why super8 Kodachrome had to be let go (Huge 50-year-old megabuck-machines involved) but this seems different; if super 8-product is only three machines away from 16mm stock, super 8 should be available for a long time yet! [Smile]

Oh, perhaps we should also support Wittners whenever we can; I´ve bought stuff from them (two-blade shutter, etc) in the past and quality was outstanding. [Smile]

Cheers
Lars

Posted by Larry Arpin (Member # 744) on May 08, 2009, 01:15 AM:

If only they were still striping film.

Posted by Yanis Tzortzis (Member # 434) on May 08, 2009, 04:58 AM:

My thanks too to Lars for the link & the very interesting news. Indeed,there's still hope for S-8!

Posted by David Kilderry (Member # 549) on May 08, 2009, 06:31 AM:

Thanks Lars, great piece. I had not got around to the link in the Wittner newsletter yet. I emailed Wittner to let them know what an eye opener it was.

David

Posted by Lars Pettersson (Member # 762) on May 09, 2009, 03:10 AM:

Thanks again,

Wittner also bought what was left of Beaulieu Cinema Inc a couple of years ago, litterally several tonnes of stuff! [Eek!]

Again, you´d think I was on the Wittner payroll, [Wink]

but I just feel they provide invaluable service to us who want to go on using small format equipment.

I frequently meet younger people who want to do stuff in super 8, yesterday a young man revealed his plans for a big super8-project to be shot in the next couple of weeks, for which he needed 40 rolls of film [Eek!]

I felt that was pretty impressive (ambitious), and should make Kodak happy! [Big Grin]

About a year ago over here an ambitious documentary project (professional) was shot on 16mm and they shot... hang on... 100 000 metres of raw stock! Wonderful [Wink]

Cheers
Lars

Posted by Jim Carlile (Member # 812) on May 12, 2009, 10:05 PM:

You know that Kodak is closing down that Windsor plant at the end of the year.

Posted by Lars Pettersson (Member # 762) on May 13, 2009, 02:38 PM:

Yes, but they move the production back to Rochester.

Cheers
Lars

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