[Frameworks] Threat to 16mm printing in the UK.

[nicky.hamlyn at talktalk.net]

But the point is that Deluxe / Soho Film Lab, (who are not Technicolour, and have only recently become Deluxe Soho, and were for a long time exactly the kind of small lab you mention) are still making money on 16mm printing. The processing machines are dual guage, and it's the same chemistry, as an earlier posting pointed out (can't remember whose), so it's hardly a nuisance for them to continue with 16mm.

 They have work "backed up", so it's simply not a case of the odd roll coming in every now and again. This is what's so annoying and irrational about their decision. They want to spend as much time on the most profitable areas of activity, 35mm duplication, and this, apparently is what's driven the decision.

Niagara is a wonderful lab -they are doing a job for me right now- and Alpha also appears to offer a very good service, but for us in the UK, there are very few viable, affordable, alternatives.

Nicky Hamlyn.


On 26 Feb 2011, at 07:22, John Woods wrote:

> Use it or lose it.
> 
> Sorry to be negative but petitions won't do it. When the lab would get a couple 
> of hundred feet that need printing every now and then while the majority of 
> their income comes from bigger clients wanting digital post services, then the 
> 16mm printing becomes a nuisance. Its just like how Kodak is canceling film 
> stocks that expire in the warehouse faster than they can sell it in quantities 
> worth their while -I'd worry more that they'll stop selling print stock before 
> all the labs give up the ghost.
> 
> So find a smaller European lab that is looking for that kind of work like 
> AlphaCine or Niagara Custom Lab over in N.A. and support them, use your money to 
> do the talking. They are out there but they just don't have names like Deluxe or 
> Technicolor.
> 
> John Woods
> 
> 
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