----- Original Message ----- From: "David Miers" Subject: Conversation with small Photo Development shop owner: future of film
> He > did make a comment that Fuji is the only film company that actually makes > film in the USA yet. I have no idea if this is accurate or not. I think Kodak is still in business over in Rochester. Last time I checked, Canada wasn't much interested in taking New York into Confederation. Fuji has a paper coating plant in the USA. They set it up in order to satisfy Wal-Mart's requiremennts regarding American manufacture to make themselves an acceptable business partner. As far as I know, all of Fuji's film stock is still being coated in Tokyo, although they may be shipping the American market masters to Tennessee for cutting and spooling. > > Another piece of trivia here that I do not know the accuracy of. He claimed > that the Agfa equipment he was working with still used an optical process > rather then simply scanning and making a digital file. He claimed that the > Frontier machines were using this type of digital scan on film however. I'm > a bit skeptical of his statement here I guess since it is still all printed > on a laser type printer. Scanning is an optical process. A light is shone through the negative and a sensor on the other side reads it. William Robb
