Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I did, for one (or certainly rooted for it) . Back in the early 90s I ran the marketing dept. for a catalog company, and kept pestering the graphics department to "go digital", since we spent a fortune on film, and had to deal with the inconvenience of e6 processing, scanning (remember 15 minute scan times?) and related annoyances. Trust me, the product shots were not art, nor intended for the ages. The only pro alternative was the Leaf camera, which required exposure times that would have made Brady seem as if he was using a motor drive. The Leaf was also something like 60k. In early 1997 I recall having a professional portrait taken with a digital camera. It was affordable for the pro (about 5k) and the quality was just fine. By then, I knew film was dead--or at least going the way of fountain pens and vinyl records. Kodak, at the time, was predicting an orderly transition from film to digital, with a 50% market penetration of digital by 2006. They were wrong by six years, which explains part of their problems. Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone ----- Reply message ----- From: "R. Clayton McKee" <rcmphoto at yahoo.com> Date: Thu, Feb 23, 2012 6:04 pm Subject: [Leica] Kodak to support film. To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> NOBODY in photography expected digital imaging to devastate the film industry more-or-less overnight.? We've ALL been playing catchup since, to one degree or another.?? Kodak fought harder and longer than most, and in the end the wheel just ran over them. Kind of like being the proprietor of the livery stable watching that first curved-dash Oldsmobile chug up the street.. "dammit, there goes the neighborhood."? But there wasn't a thing that could be done to stop it then, either. ? R. Clayton McKee PhotoJournalist from somewhere just south of somewhere else... >________________________________ > From: Jim Shulman <jshulman at judgecrater.com> >To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:36 PM >Subject: Re: [Leica] Kodak to support film. > >Problem with hindsight is that the obvious isn't until the very end. >Given Kodak's history--they controlled the market, film formats, etc., and >not the other way round--it's understandable that they would only to come >to this logical conclusion after exhausting all the other possibilities >(and their cash). > > > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information