Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Luis, No sane company phases out a product that is still selling well. You are right that Kodachrome started going downhill before digital took off, as a result of E6. But that too is plain economics, so it (again) proves my point. Nathan Luis Miguel Casta?eda wrote: > > On 24/01/2006, at 21:00, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > >> I am sure they would have loved to continue Kodachrome 25 and all >> those other wonderful products from the past. But the harsh reality >> is that the point came where sales had sunk so low [...] > > > While I agree the general idea I'm not so sure about this point. K > process always was ruinous, and hard to justify economically since the > E-6 reached the high level of quality achieved in the late times, they > were planning quitting it out the shelf long before there it was a > digital option or sales were diminishing significatively. > > Agfa demise sounds like financial engineering to me more than a real > bankruptcy, but who cares? > > > > > Saludos > ----------------------------------------- > http://imaginarymagnitude.net/blog/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog