From: Cari Machet (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Oct 27 2005 - 00:31:38 PDT
any chance of anything going also to dv/hd
in ur process mark?
c
--- Sam Wells <email suppressed> wrote:
> > If only the Vision Premiere stuff was still
> available
> > in 16m... The Vision Premiere preservation prints
> of
> > Castro Street are truly incredible looking...
> >
> > Mark T
>
> Print on 35 vs 16 aside...
>
> Ya know, THIS issue really would be worth bugging
> Kodak about.
>
> I suspect their reluctance to let Premiere out in
> 16mm is pretty much a
> demand issue. It has (as 16mm that is) been in their
> catalog (haven't
> looked lately) usually with annotation referring to
> advance order etc.
> (but doesn't have an SO designation which is what it
> effectively is, it
> seems to me).
>
> I myself have not printed on it, I had the chance
> with a lab test 2-3
> yrs back, and would have had I known it was going to
> go in to rarity
> status.
>
> There's also Fuji 3153DI (formerly called HC for
> "high contrast") this
> is Fuji's answer to Premiere apparently. Renamed DI
> as they want to be
> competitive it seems with Kodak/Premiere in the
> filmout from HD etc
> market where Premiere really trumps the standard
> Vision stock (my own
> observations confirm this). I've seen 1 or 2 things
> from DV & HD
> printed to Fuji DI but can't asses it otherwise as a
> print stock.
> (Premier seems lab's 1st choice for this, Fuji the
> 'economic'
> alternative).
>
> However it's on Fuji's site as being available in
> 16mm........
>
> PS There have been a LOT of calls from the
> professional cinematography
> community for Kodak to make Premiere more
> competitively priced.
>
> -Sam
>
>
>
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