Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"'Despite the decline in the monochrome market the business has a very significant market share,' said Les Ross of Grant Thornton." Even were the traditional black and white part of the company to be sold off from the ink jet part, it is still a company with considerable sales and excellent products. Kodak stopped its black and white film research and I bet that this also will happen with Ilford. Research is expensive. So that we will still have Delta films, but not the next generation. Which is very sad. Maybe the scientist(s) at Ilford can join up with Silvia Zawadsky in New York. A new little company with black and white film and paper research as their only product. Jesse