On another ocasion while in the USAF, I had good fortune to be stationed in the UK. Using Kodak Film I went and spent a day photographing the Imperial War Museum. I then turned the film in to the AAFES (BX) photo center @ RAF Upper Heyford--they used Fuji developing. Boy was I PISSED when my film and prints came back green from bad chemicals and processing ! I had to go back to the Museum for another reshoot and then saved my film for Kodak processing Stateside.

Bottom line, ya, I pay a little more for Kodak film and processing, but I have always been assured of a quality product :! I have learned my lesson and I swear by Kodak!

In my day of B&W still photography though I always preferred Ilford. HP5 was much better than Tri-X in terms of what one could do with it and how graining it looked. Likewise FP-4 looked better to me than Plus-X. I used to keep two 100' rolls in the fridge, one of FP-4 the other of HP-5...load up cartridges of what ever I needed for the shoot and they never let me down. In the Dark room Ilford always worked better for me as well...I liked the Ilford papers. Normally, I used Kodak chemicals though.

This was all before the T-grain stuff though.

For slide/home-movie film, I much prefer Kodachrome to ANYTHING by a wide margin. I never liked Ektachrome all that much. Though Ektachrome was process E-6 and afforded me the ability to process it at home.

The various Kodacolors, Varicolor and the other color negative films always did well by me too. Kodak color papers were just fine in the dark room. For slide to print I used Cibachrome (again Ilford)

Kodak offers a wide variety of products to please different tastes and the desire for different "looks". Just look at the number of different film products Kodak offers the movie industry (many more than any other manufacturer):
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/products/films.shtml
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/products/postProducts.shtml

Not to mention the numerous tools designed to make film easier to use, and to improve quality:
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/screencheck/
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/products/digital.shtml
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/support/h61/
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/support/processing/index.shtml
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/support/imagecare/index.shtml

And of course, digital products and services:
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/digital/system.shtml
http://www.cinesite.com/

I know the other product areas in Kodak have the same dedication to customer satisfaction, service, and quality.

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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: +1 585 477 5325 Cell: +1 585 781 4036 Fax: +1 585 722 7243
E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion