Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/06/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:19 AM 6/13/96 -0400, Winston Yu wrote: > Why can't Kodak dump its film on Japanese market ? You see, THAT is the entire question! Kodak is required -- by free-market competition forces -- to compete directly with Fuji in the world market. In Japan, though, scads of governmental intrusions forbid Kodak from competing squarely and honestly with Fuji -- thus, Fuji can compete with Kodak, but Kodak cannot compete with Fuji. It's hardly fair. The entire problem will evaporate in time, of course, once photographers actually LOOK at the sort of garbage Fuji produces. Yecch! Neon colours in films! Gag me -- I'll stay with Kodak or, when I can find it, Agfa. Better colours and a LOT more consistency. So, in the end, the Free Market will force Fuji to either stay in their protected environ (Japan) or to improve the abyssmally low quality of their product. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!