4x5 Velvia 50 update
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 3:05 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
For those who may have taken time to sign the petition and followed the updates here is a message I received last night.
It took a bit of time but Fuji did respond to the on-line petition that was signed by almost 2000 LF photogs.
The person who started the petition, Stef Dunn in Brisbane Australia, gets full credit for all his efforts to date and he is also following up with them on the response letter listed below.
He has also posted a bit of information on the response on the petition site as well. I've not seen that to date, but Stef asked that I post this information on any photog sites I had access to.
PDF Letter without the header info listed:
Thank you for your constant patronage.
I am Norihiko Sakata from Photo Imaging Products Division, responsible for photographic film products.
I am writing in reply to your letter of September 5, 2012 sent to our management including the CEO. We again realized how much photographers supported and loved “Velvia 50 sheet film” after receiving numbers of petition for continuation of the product.
Until today, we have made our best effort to keep our production to supply regularly. However, the demand of “Velvia 50 sheet film” has drastically dropped which is only a few percent compared to peak usage period. Therefore, we had to reduce the variety of photographic films including Velvia50 sheet film in order to sustain the film supply over the future.
We will try our best to examine what we can do based on your petition, but please understand that we will not be able to guarantee whether we can fully meet your expectation or not under this severe situation.
Once again, thank you very much for your continuous support.
Norihiko Sakata
Senior Operations Manager
Imaging material & Camera solution group
Photo Imaging Products Division
FUJIFILM Corporation
7-3, AKASAKA 9-CHOME, MINATO-KU
TOKYO 107-0052, JAPAN
It took a bit of time but Fuji did respond to the on-line petition that was signed by almost 2000 LF photogs.
The person who started the petition, Stef Dunn in Brisbane Australia, gets full credit for all his efforts to date and he is also following up with them on the response letter listed below.
He has also posted a bit of information on the response on the petition site as well. I've not seen that to date, but Stef asked that I post this information on any photog sites I had access to.
PDF Letter without the header info listed:
Thank you for your constant patronage.
I am Norihiko Sakata from Photo Imaging Products Division, responsible for photographic film products.
I am writing in reply to your letter of September 5, 2012 sent to our management including the CEO. We again realized how much photographers supported and loved “Velvia 50 sheet film” after receiving numbers of petition for continuation of the product.
Until today, we have made our best effort to keep our production to supply regularly. However, the demand of “Velvia 50 sheet film” has drastically dropped which is only a few percent compared to peak usage period. Therefore, we had to reduce the variety of photographic films including Velvia50 sheet film in order to sustain the film supply over the future.
We will try our best to examine what we can do based on your petition, but please understand that we will not be able to guarantee whether we can fully meet your expectation or not under this severe situation.
Once again, thank you very much for your continuous support.
Norihiko Sakata
Senior Operations Manager
Imaging material & Camera solution group
Photo Imaging Products Division
FUJIFILM Corporation
7-3, AKASAKA 9-CHOME, MINATO-KU
TOKYO 107-0052, JAPAN