[filmscanners] RE: Kodak dropping 35mm and APS cameras in N.A.

["Les Berkley" <wogears@fast.net>]

Hello!

You know, back when Great Yellow Father was a (virtual) monopoly, they were
a wonderful company. They actually CARED about their professional customers,
and made wonderful products like the Electric Brush, which I wish I could
still find. It makes dust fall off film. And they maintained production on
amateur film stocks for YEARS after significant demand was gone. But then
came Fuji and Ilford and Ciba and there was serious competition, and
anything that wasn't immediately profitable had to go. Of course they made
some dumb moves (those disk camera things were truly gawd-awful), but so did
companies like Apple Computer <g>. Now that I think of it, except for some
boutique companies, there's nobody out there like the old EK...

Les

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk 
> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of Laurie Solomon
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 1:12 PM
> To: wogears@fast.net
> Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Kodak dropping 35mm and APS 
> cameras in N.A.
> 
> 
> 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. 

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