Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/06/14

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: Kodak & Fuji in Japan (off topic)
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@gp.magick.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 07:20:10 -0700

At 07:04 PM 6/14/96, you wrote:
>
>dream of using anything else.  But I think Kodak will eventually gain a bigger 
>following here;  they are really starting to advertise a lot and they
sponsor a 
>popular soccer team (who all wear "Kodak" emblazoned across their jerseys).  
>They have quite a TV campaign going also, featuring young, rebellious, "with 
>it" Japanese doing things like tipping over a dinner table and photographing 
>the result with a Kodak instant camera.

This is an area Kodak is expert in. I'm not going to worry for them. And I'm
sure it's true that Japanese people prefer Fuji, the film is tuned to their
skin tones, just like EK film is to caucasian/black skin tones (they come up
the same on a color analyzer according to Bob Mitchell of Photo Technique
magazine. I don't know, I've never used an analyzer). I wonder what pallette
european film is tuned to? 

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Eric Welch
Grants Pass Daily Courier