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Yes, very sad - I really hope they carry on making camera films.

This is what we would lose:

https://thedarkroom.com/film-brand/kodak

Kodak film products are (confusingly) handled by Kodak-Alaris, which is a separate company that spun out of Eastman Kodak around 2012-ish and shares the Kodak brand with Eastman Kodak. Despite the similar names they are entirely separate companies, AFAIK.

My team did an integration with Kodak-Alaris a few years back and we toured their main office in Rochester.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_Alaris

The way Wikipedia describes it, Eastman Kodak is still the one manufacturing the film, and Kodak Alaris is just selling it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak#Still_film

> Based in Hemel Hempstead

Huh

Hopefully they'd be unscratched if the big Kodak goes down (I assume they still have some equity?)

I don't remember the details now, but my recollection is that spinning off the film business was tied to funding the pension, and the way the pension management was also spun off.

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