Re: Kodak to discontinue HSI?

["Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

On 16 Nov 99 at 10:03, Clive Warren wrote:

> Still no letter from Kodak UK regarding the future for HSI 4x5 sheet film.
> 
> However I did get a call this morning from a supplier who told me that they
> had talked to Kodak UK regarding future supplies.
> 
> The latest story is that Kodak are going to discontinue the Estar-based HSI
> (how it is normally supplied) and will in the future supply HSI in the
> thinner acetate base as used in 35mm HIE.
> 
> Reading between the lines, this means that Kodak will be simply cutting the
> 4x5 sheets from the same stock as that used for 35mm.

Better/more-logical: from the same stock as 9.5" Aerographic IR.
That's also where 8x10" for government agencies comes from AFAIK....
(no sales to civil users AFAIK)
 
 

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Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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