Agfa is going to supply films to a former Kodak film division

[AgX]

The new owner of Kodak's microfilm division (sold by Kodak last year) has made a supply contract with Agfa on the supply of Agfa's microfilms to them becoming effective within the next half year.
Furthermore the introduction of new products by Agfa for this business is indicated.

Agfa's films will be sold under the (Kodak-registered) tradename "Imagelink".

It has not been stated of or when Kodak will end supplying microfilms. However Agfa speaks of a significant increase in production, which implies that Kodak is retracting from such manufacture, if not already done.

Basically this means that Agfa takes over former Kodak's share on the worldmarket productionwise.

Seemingly Agfa will still be offering their microfilms directly which would mean that worlwide both companies would compete with the same films.


Wheras Agfa left the consumer field in 2004, Kodak did the last years the opposite by selling bit by bit their non-consumer film productions.

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

I dont know what is microfilm , is it for minox , smaller or bigger. Who uses microfilm , libraries , dentists or 8mm shooters.
I love Agfa products most and its good to see they are manufacturing.

And a camera with long roll of micro size film would be decrease my costs and increase the quality and count.
I still want to Buy a Leicina and 8 mm film and shoot thousands of frames one by one.

Can you shed a light little bit AgX ?

Thank you very much,

Umut

[AgX]

Microfilms are high-resolution films, mostly halide films. Films for mircro-copying, that is exposing images extremely reduced in size.
They have been used in most different fields, either for archiving (typically spooled films) or distributing (microfiche).

Digital data processing and storing has taken part of the market for microfilms. However due to its longterm stability microfilm is ideal for archiving, especially as security copy.

Those high-resolution films for pictorial use are typically based on microfilms with modified development.

[AgX]

At Agfa it is assumed that this contract will necessitate additional 10-15 jobs (out 12.000).
However in the longrun this add-up will be outbalanced by a forthgoing reduction of the number of employees at their chemical plant due the decline of sales of film in general.

[Brian C. Miller]

Microfilm is for things like long term document archival, like newspaper archives. When I was a kid I could go to the library, look up a paper in the index, and pull the microfilm reels for the year. There were microfilm machines that you could wind up on it for viewing. Last time I was at the library, there weren't any machines, the archives weren't there, and the online archives only went back a few years. Welcome to the digital age. "We Won't Remember It For You" (A take on Philip K. Dick's, "We Will Remember It For You, Wholesale")