Kodak's Film Quality Control Process - Smarter Every Day 275-B

I thought you'd enjoy seeing how they look at the film. I thought using the color filters to sniff out where any potential problems would be was rather fascinating! Here's my Patreon note from the main channel video: If you feel like this content is worth your time and you'd like to enable me to keep making stuff like this, please consider supporting on Patreon. www.patreon.com/smartereveryday . If you enjoy the channel, that's the single best way to help. Thank you!

"There is no consequences for him raising a red flag, there is action items after that, we want him to find it" Great clarification, this is the mindset to have regarding quality, and more importantly safety.

3:27 Destin: "If it breaks, what do you do"? - Jeff: "We've got really good engineers, there's always eBay" - Best Answer Ever! 🤣👍👍 I'm imagining a Kodak engineer in a bidding war with some collector for a piece of vital equipment they need to get the line running again. Jeff is Aweso

I recall reading somewhere that Kodak’s quality control lab was the first organisation outside government to become aware of the Manhattan Project. Radiation caused by the first test apparently caused a consistent fault in their X-Ray film processing. Having ruled out a manufacturing fault they approached government with their findings.

As a customer, I know Kodak takes quality control seriously. I emailed them once about a defect on a developed roll. They asked me some general questions and took my concern very seriously. Two weeks later 5 rolls of replacement film showed up in the mail from Kodak. The weirdest thing was, and I went back through my email to double check, was that I never gave them my address.

I love when Destin asks if he can touch things or step in certain areas. So much respect.

It's almost like upper management has deserted Kodak and left everyone else to do their own thing. It's a rare thing to see so many happy and passionate people who have a single minded focus on making the best product possible!

I had the opportunity to work at Kodak in Melbourne back in the late 90s doing IT support. Quality was the core value of the entire organisation. A wonderful community and some of the most positive and supportive people I've ever had the chance to work with.

I've mentioned it before, but you should try to get a tour of a paper mill. A paper mill would be extremely interesting for YouTube content 👍

As mentioned in my comments on the main video. the device at 15:57 is know as a “snot slot” to us Kodakers. Retired 2002. Great series of videos, I’m headed to Patreon to suppoort this guy. here

What I appreciate about your type of interviewing is that you're not making sounds of agreement every two seconds, like "hmm", "yea", "aha", "ok", which happens in so many "interview" type videos. You're just letting people talk, that's good.

When it comes to quality, I think its important that some motion pictures are still shot on 'analog' film, imagine if there was a defect on a a roll, that would only be discovered after the scene was shot, wrapped and processed. That is part of why there is the 'dailies review' on film set, to see if the scene worked from a cinematographic point of view, but also from mechanical film point of view.

So, I'm a QC technician for semiconductor lithography, and I just love learning about this stuff. Also, anyone else working in an applied QC lab, don't we have some of the coolest jobs around? Destin still takes the cake, along with the NASA engineers tho.

It might just be me but I think this was definitely main channel worthy

Dustin, in case I neglect to say it in time (between now and mid-2023) I’d like to thank you and everyone that helped make all your videos. It makes the remaining time in the hospice so much more bearable, if not downright enjoyable. I’ve been into photography for nearly 55 + years, ever since I started to use my father’s Kodak Box Brownie, which used monochrome 120-roll film. By the time I was 7/8 it was possible to use colour 120 film so long as the light was decent. The Box Brownie was able to do landscape and portrait format photos but only had one single shutter speed (about 1/100th of a second but feel free to correct me if I’m mistaken. To everyone at SED, thank you all for your efforts and explanations. I’d be very interested in writing to the team you spoke to in order to thank them all for the amount of time they all spent in order to answer all your questions, as well as all the explanations. The video might be considered as a PR coup for Kodak at the end of the day, but I don’t see it as such. Everyone was so keen to spend time to explain their role in the procedure and it undoubtedly helped that Dustin’s enthusiasm for the topic is so clear to see - no scripted jokes or pro-Kodak advertising was necessary. If anything I’d probably say that Kodak truly knocked the ball out of the State - something I never expected to see with a ping-pong ball!!!

I was a manufacturing engineer in professional sheet film back in the 90s. Yes, occasionally we would get problems back from customers. We got some shots back from Play Boy. We really gave them a close examination!

Those color filters at the end are the complementary colors on the additive vs subtractive color wheels. Light is RGBW, print is CYMK. By using the other chart you can isolate light to colors by subtracting out the additive light. (This is also why only 3D glasses weren’t actually red and blue, they were red and cyan so they could use the alternative color wheels for each eye. The yellow and green glasses were always better though.)

I'm so impressed by their QC operation. That kind of QC makes me respect the company and want to use the products.

I once took a Summer job as a developer/color corrector at a mom and pop film lab. That's when I learned that I was color-vision deficient. My career was short lived, and several couples got a bunch of rather green wedding prints.

You're an amazing person. For real; You are intrinsic, interested in the way things in our life work, and constantly try to learn and grow; And even better than all that combined; You share your passions with us, so that we may also learn and grow