In this episode, Daren reviews Kodak’s financial statements, explains why its stock price recently tanked, and discusses how the business is doing. We chat about money, a factory explosion, toxic chemicals, the future of film photography, and film prices.
Kodak’s recent decisions, including the upcoming liquidation of its pension plan interests to pay off a maturing loan (a move that has sparked a flurry of negative news about the company). Though likely a necessary move, this also puts Kodak in a tough position, as its sales of print technology, a major part of its business, are under threat from competition.
On the bright side, the part of Kodak that makes and sells film is growing fast. Its brand is incredibly recognizable — and, as we’ve learned recently, Kodak is not afraid to leverage it for gain. Though we haven’t discussed Kodacolor in this podcast, it is an example of the Eastman company going around Alaris to sell more film (see https://www.analog.cafe/r/kodak-colorplus-vs-kodacolor-200-vs-kodak-gold-200-my93).
Show links:
- Kodak financial report https://www.analog.cafe/r/film-photography-news-august-2025-recap-0ovn#is-kodak-in-trouble
- Polaroid’s fading qualities https://www.analog.cafe/r/how-to-make-polaroid-sol-pints-e098
- How to dispose of film chemicals https://www.learnfilm.photography/how-to-dispose-of-film-developing-chemicals/
- Silver in the human body https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria (gross picture)
- Kodak AHU https://www.analog.cafe/comments/6lnk
- Film prices https://www.analog.cafe/app/film-price-trends
- Preferences for black-and-white film
- Gingerbread camera https://www.analog.cafe/r/building-the-worlds-first-gingerbread-camera-twpg
- Analog aF-1 https://www.analog.cafe/r/film-photography-news-september-2025-recap-7lux#analogue-af-1
- Film inversion https://www.analog.cafe/r/how-to-invert-colour-film-negatives-in-photoshop-geea
- Lucky film https://www.analog.cafe/r/film-photography-news-july-2025-recap-kxhx#new-colour-film-from-china-lucky-c200
This episode was published on October 16, 2025. 56 min.
Analog.Cafe Podcast `s1/e2` “Kodak Removes Remjet”
In this episode, we chat about the recent update to Kodak Vision 3 films, which was eight years in the making!
As you may or may not know, Kodak sells a huge amount of film to cinema studios. This footage is branded Vision 3, which is different from all other Kodak emulsions we put in still cameras. The main difference, until now, has been the remjet layer — a black carbon deposit on the back of the film that has to be washed off before development (or risk ruining the chemicals and the film itself).
This month, Kodak announced that they’ve reformulated their motion picture films to no longer require remjet, meaning they can be developed like any other colour-negative (in either C-41 or ECN-2).
Together, we unpack this technology, what it means for film photography and photography in general. Daren and Dmitri also touch on related subjects, like grain simulations, what it takes to stand out in the crowd photography space, and why we love the analogue process.
We also chat about our own efforts to replicate CineStill 800T at home.
“We’re always going to have sick people, why can’t we also have sick film?”
— Dmitri, on why Fujifilm should start investing in film again, a product that’s been sidelined by the company in favour of the more profitable medical research.
Show links:
- Kodak factory tours https://www.analog.cafe/comments/tnq0Kodak silver caps on film canisters https://petapixel.com/2021/06/30/kodaks-35mm-canisters-now-have-silver-caps-due-to-metal-shortages/
- More on Kodak and Kodak Alaris relationship: Is Kodak Okay? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf1vFv7Mc-0
- Can we make CineStill at home? https://www.analog.cafe/r/how-to-fake-cinestill-800t-q69c (more links coming soon, follow Daren https://www.youtube.com/@LearnFilmPhotography and Yvonne https://www.youtube.com/@YvonneHansonPhotography )
- CineStill’s factory at Kodak Rochester (Kodakery Podcast): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cinestill-with-brian-and-brandon-wright/id1075930391?i=1000446319972
- Our test using nature to develop film: https://www.analog.cafe/r/i-developed-film-in-cannabis-9ozs and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjMStAcKlqQ
- Music Video shot on never-before-seen Kodak film: https://www.analog.cafe/comments/hvaf
- Hypersensitization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_hypersensitization
- https://SoftGrainBooks.com — Daren’s small Canadian publishing company that sells art photography books.
This is a pilot episode of the new film photography podcast where Daren and I discuss the Polaroid Flip camera and other Polaroid-related things.
Daren runs a YouTube channel, @LearnFilmPhotography, and the https://learnfilm.photography blog. We live in the same city and did a lot of collabs in the past. You can find some of them here: https://www.analog.cafe/@daren.zomerman.2mcu.
In this episode, we chat about:
- Polaroid Flip
- Setting exposures for Polaroid film
- Polaroid Go
- MiNT cameras
- The origins of modern Polaroid chemistry https://www.analog.cafe/r/a-brief-history-of-polaroid-s3ko
- How Polaroid may be losing money on their cameras
- Gingerbread camera https://www.analog.cafe/r/building-the-worlds-first-gingerbread-camera-twpg
- Emulsion lifts
- Polaroid film comparisons https://www.analog.cafe/r/polaroid-600-in-sx-70-no-filter-no-mods-no-flash-wpr5
- Macro photography https://www.analog.cafe/r/how-to-shoot-macro-photos-on-an-sx-70-2l4q
- Instant photography book https://softgrainbooks.com/shop/between-blocks