It would be nice if they would maintain a division that would produce and
market not only certain mainstay film products but also certain specialty
film products and chemistry - or at least license them out to other smaller
companies that might rather than just discontinuing them. Reading between
the lines of this article, it reads as if Kodak will be abandoning even
their t-max, plus-x and tri-x films as well as their e-6 and c-41 films.
Moreover, if they abandon them, they will be abandoning processing papers
and chemistries as well. I think we might find Kodak going the road of RCA
and become a subsidary of some other company or a conglomerate (RCA is a
subsidary of Thompson Electronics these days and not an entity in their own
right).
filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk wrote:
>> From: Laurie Solomon
>>
>> Actually and interestinglly, according to an article I read in a
>> trade magazine here in the US (Professional Photographer, I
>> believe), Kodak is abandoning its entire film and film related R & D
>> operation over the next seven years. Its plan calls for it to go
>> strictly into digital according to the article. I am not sure how
>> much of this is fact, how much is speculation, and how much is the
>> old "film is dead" and "we will have a paperless society" argument
>> that some of the digital industry entrenched writers are inclined to
>> make. However, I am inclined to believe that there is a large grain
>> of truth in what the article suggests. Over the past decade, Kodak
>> has ben turning to CEOs that lead high tech firms prior to being
>> recruited to Kodak (H-P's former CEO comes to mind) and has dabbled
>> in the digital arena while cutting back on the number of
>> knowledgable film specialists in their employ.
>
> I wish they'd maintain a small division that continued to market and
> process certain irreplaceable film products, like Kodachrome. It may
> not make them much money, but I would think they'd be able to at
> least break even.
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