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Kodak BW400CN Film Discontinuation Notice

2014-08-20


KODAK PROFESSIONAL BW400CN Film -- discontinuation notice on August 14, 2014 


I am novice on films. I find this journalistic C41 b&w film to be unique with fine grain, great contrast and creamy look. I preferred it over the Ilford XP2. I find BW400CN easiest to scan as color negatives and have the dust removal feature available in scanning. Even my lowly flatbed cannon scanner at home likes this film.

Kodak BW400CN Film Discontinuation Notice
IMG_0001-2 by hin_man, on Flickr
shot with Kodak BW400CN, scanned with Canon 8800F

Kodak BW400CN Film Discontinuation Notice
DSC07506 by hin_man, on Flickr
Two more rolls to go

I quite often see this film on display in places like Walmart and CVS, I thought wrongly that this film will last longer than others. The discontinuation notice of BW400CN in Kodak's site leads me to this wonderful 100% film photographer

Tanja Lippert  -- http://www.tanjalippert.com/

and the discovery of this wonderful development place that she has used for her professional work

Indie Film Lab  -- http://indiefilmlab.com/

All is not lost in this piece of sad news, I hope the few films that I love live on -- Fuji Acros 100, Kodak Tri-X 400 and Kodak Ektar. 

Pentax K-xC Plan Revealed -- Request to Pentax Corp.

2009-09-18
Pentax K-X color selection SilverLimitedSilver Limited

Pentax K-X color selection BlueBlackLimitedBlueBlack Limited

Pentax K-X color selection WhiteRedSilverLimitedHMBashyWhite Limited
Hin Man Pick


Pentax K-X color selection RiceHighTrashyGreenRHTrashyGreen Unlimited

Pentax K-X color selection MarsLanding LimitedMarsLanding Limited

Pentax K-X color selection RiceHighTrashyGreenPF_CA_Ready_Camper

The color selection from Japan is mind boggling and I hope it gets noticed and cheer on the positive momentum not even seen in the recent substantial major releases of Pentax k-7 and Pentax K20D. Both are outstanding leap of advances in APS-C cameras in the Pentaxian community.

Now, I can't decide on white versus the blue. Oh my Gosh, maybe Rice High will blog about how bad Pentax does on the coloring schemes. And he will likely launch a campaign in his blog to solicit voting from how odd Pentax throw this color scheme at consumers. He may file lawsuit on color blindness from the K-x launch.

But for me, how many K-x will I get tempted to buy. I am pretty darn sure that it is over one. A request to Pentax Corp., can we make it BUTTONIZED feature so that a menu is popped up on demand to choose color for body and grip. And color liquid metallic body will activate in 0.02 seconds with the chosen color. K-x color scheme can default to user defined criteria set on temperature, lens mounted, scene detected, and mood swing detection, along with Pentanic Random modules with an open API for the Pentax Tech Savy and Pentax Hacker Community. The default preferred facelift on-demand color include sliver limited, black limited, m42 oddies, Zeiss glass suitable, camouflage green, RiceHigh trashy green, Canon white L look alike, Nikonian DarkForce, White Trooper Call, Sub-zero Color White, Red-hot Mars landing among others. That is the next Pentax K-xC to die for.

If you look at PentaxForums RH profile , I actually extend my friendship to him. He has since left the PF just like usual in all other forums. I really like him on his in-depth analysis and his initial enthusiasm on Pentax k-7. I consider him as a great resources and friend who are unique. But he chose again to go on his WORST human side in accusing Pentax for every single negative opinions that he and others can think, dream, buzz around and talk about.

But his continued bias and echo of Pentax issues are beyond what anyone can imagine that does more harm than good to the Pentax community. Unfortunately, people including myself love bashing and rumors. I am here to SAY NO to Rumors and SAY NO to RH for his completely biased and negative views which blind sighted the entire Pentax community by repeating every single thread of discussion in the internet that has an issue related to Pentax. He is the echo of every negative thoughts and potential negative opinions and as a result, issues and known problems are magnified 10+ if not more. Negative thoughts spread like cancer with no cure. We can only stop it by SAYING NO to rumors and SAYING NO to RH.


Request to Pentax Corp.

Please make the color choice an international and global choice.

We are the world and Pentax serves the world with no boundaries.

And among other features, the color scheme for Pentax K-xC that I will die for:

  • Buttonized control for color
  • Supersonic Liquid Metallic Color Control with Open Source API
  • User Defined Modules for Color FaceLift with criteria
    • Temperature
    • Humidity
    • Mood swing detection based on K-x Super HandGrip
    • Pentanic Random Color Modules with Open Source API
    • Security Alert Stealth Mode
      • Flashing Orange Alert from strangers not Pentaxianized upon purchase
      • Enemy detection with Open API for plugin module
      • RH mode -- Self Destruction with customized timeout and warning alert
      • Bashing Mode -- RHTrashyGreen color activation upon swearing and bashing detection
    • GeoTargetting color with open source API for customization
      • Country color
      • Planet detection color
      • Galaxy Exploration Fake
    • Lens Mount Backward Compatible and 3rd party Color Match
      • M42 oddie color in Chrome
      • Zeiss color in Zebra Black & White
      • Canon White L Lens look alike
      • Nikonic Dark Force
    • Limited Self Detection for limited edition color
      • Silver Limited
      • Black & Blue Limited
      • White Limited
      • Chrome Limited

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Pentax K-x Color Selection -- Hin's Favorite

2009-09-17
Pentax K-x hin favorite color selection techtheman
This is the color pick that I will go about in choosing my custom selected color for Pentax K-x. I like white and I love red to go with white. I am no RiceHigh and he picked green color for his Pentax K-m which is not to my taste for camera. I love green but not for camera. Perhaps, I have different taste for camera. I don't know what RH is up next in trashing and bashing Pentax. He may complain too much color to choose from and whine about the headache with choices. He is there to trash Pentax 24/7 and I am here to focus on the good and positive news from Pentax.

Bravo to Pentax who is bold and offers consumers with choices. Congratulation to everyone who stay put with Pentax in the tough economic time with severe competitions. I am here to stay and I look forward to hearing more great news from Pentax. It would be a awesome setup to have a Pentax K-7 as main body and a 2nd body with Pentax K-x that is smaller, lighter and it goes with style that one can choose to one's liking. Be it the RH green or the stylish White and Red from Hin, it is up to one's choosing. We love Pentax and I hope Pentax knows.


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