Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> declined dramatically. Even though it's not on a discontinued list > that doesn't mean Kodak is not sending up a trial balloon via the > rumor mill. > > If i were a user I would stock up if and when Kodak makes a formal > announcement. As set out in the earlier message, sounds pretty formal to me - timescale and all. I can't imagine there is much of a market for it any more - most of it's major uses have gone or are going digital: "I just received a message from Charles S. Smith, senior public relations spokesman for Eastman Kodak. charles.s.smith@kodak.com I have learned that we did send a letter (Aug. 1) to dealers that we will discontinue Technical Pan film. However, there was no mention of Kodachrome in the letter. We will discontinue 120 format in December of this year; 135 and long rolls April of 2005; and sheets films in June. The letter suggests photographers use T-Max 100 as an alternative and suggests processing support. As for a reason, the volumes of Technical Pan films are declining and changes in our manufacturing processes would make it impractical to support at the low levels of today."