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Gordon;
This has been the misunderstanding mentioned earlier in this thread. The process to produce a print is done by hand, but the manufacturing process to make the film and reciever sheet is a very large scale, cost and labor intensive process requiring lots of $$. It will produce too much material to support the market unless 8x10 and pack films are made.
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If it involves Fuji, is there any reason they couldn't use the film and receiver sheet for existing Fuji instant films, manufacture the pods for 20x24" using Polaroid's equipment, and the hand assembly of the packet would happen as it did before? The only question would be whether they could get the quantity of Fuji goop that would fit into a Polaroid 20x24" pod to flow evenly over that size of a sheet, I'd think.
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 Originally Posted by HerrBremerhaven
My understanding on this was Polaroid 20x24 was a hand process, and not a large machine process.
Ciao!
Gordon Moat Photography
The "hand" aspect of the process would be in the making up of the final sizes of the components. Film coating is film coating, for consistent quality results, particulary with a product as complicated as the Polaroid color was, requires a very large complicated coating line....regardless of the final size of the product. The 20x24 film (component) of the 20x24 Polaroid process was the SAME as some of the smaller size films 8x10 and 4x5. It was just cut to different final dimensions. Maybe the 20x24 film size was cut by hand,
but I can guarantee you it wasn't coated by hand, and would require a large building size coating line to replicate. The only company that could produce the raw products to make new batches of instant film from freshly coated master rolls would be Fuji.
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Originally Posted by PHOTOTONE
The only company that could produce the raw products to make new batches of instant film from freshly coated master rolls would be Fuji.
That’s not true. As I pointed out before, André Rott and Edith Weyde were not only (re-)inventors of diffusion transfer reversal processes in the 30ties and employees of Gevaert and Agfa, but moreover Agfa is now a major player in the field of pictorial diffusion transfer.
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David is right. Once the 20x24 is being made, andy other size can be made and vice versa. Also as to AgX and Phototone, making a B&W material is a far cry from making color. I would leave Agfa out of the picture!
PE
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Agfa is doing continuous tone BW and Colour diffusion transfer processes.
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Well, thanks, that is news to me.
Sorry. But, I don't know their product lineup so I cannot comment on how well they could enter into this type of market.
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I guess its rather the question whether they want to. They are busy with their security products.
They don't publicize anything more than what I posted so far.
Well, they stated in 2006 they made of over 100million small DTR peel-apart prints.
Last edited by AgX; 08-21-2008 at 09:18 AM.
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