Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/25

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Kodak Focus on Digital
From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:58:32 -0400

Me thinks thine head is in a dark, damp place...Kodak management may not
always be the sharpest set of knives in the drawer, buy anyone who is
not so blinded by red dots as to be unable to see the mural on the wall
realizes that the Age of Film is coming to an end. Yes, there will
continue to be a market for film - but it will be ever shrinking. Fuji
also realizes this, which is why they are getting more and more
seriously into digital. Kodak is simply adjusting to reality. The
company is, after all, in business to make money; not marinade in a bowl
of nostalgia.



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Subject: Re: [Leica] Kodak Focus on Digital



In a message dated 9/25/03 3:29:36 AM, bill_clough@yahoo.com writes:

<<    The Associated Press broadcast wire is reporting that
today, the Wall Street Journal will announce that Kodak is preparing to
move away from traditional film and into digital technology. It says
Kodak hopes to compete head on with Hewlett-Packard, Canon and Epson by
launching a line of ink-jet printers. Kodak also says it will make no
more significant long-term investments in traditional consumer film.
- --Bill Clough >>
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Methinks Kodak management is trying to shore up the price of Kodak stock
on 
Wall Street by showing that Kodak is a with-it company. Business is
dynamic. If 
Fuji starts making big money on film, Kodak will jump back in. By then
it may 
be too late. The Yellow Box Car may remain at the end of the train. 

Most likely, Kodak will maintain their R&D in film under a different
account 
classification. Future film stocks might carry digital processing and
other 
information and dry processing could make a revolutionary appearance. As
Kodak 
engineers said in a newsclip a read a few years ago: Only 20% of film's 
potential has been exploited. You couldn't say that about the horse or
the telegraph 
or the steam engine.   

bob rosen

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