Re: [Leica] film is dieing..... according to Kodak at least

["Dr. Joseph Yao" <Joseph@yao.com>]

Dan,

Fuji fares no better is Hong Kong.  I spent close to a year asking Fuji HK
to bring in their excellent NHG 800.  They repeatedly told me there would be
demand for such an expensive ISO 800 colour negative emulsion, and if I
really wanted ISO 800, I could always buy the Superia 800, which IMHO was
not in the same league.

It was not until I started flooding the local market with grey imports of
NNG 800 I ordered from an overseas supplier then Fuji began to take notice.
In contrary to their belief, there is a healthy demand for high quality ISO
800 colour negative films here.

I have done the same with Mercedes-Benz, Leica and Voigtlander, and on all
occasions, their marketing strategies were not in line with customers needs.

Perhaps you should do the same with XTOL, and Kodak Singapore will likely to
change their mind.

Regards,

Joseph

on 10/12/00 2:09 PM, D Khong at dkhong@pacific.net.sg wrote:

> Friends,
> 
> From what I gather from various posts past and present and from personal
> experience, Kodak's woes are far from over. I find their business strategy
> puzzling. They also do not welcome customer and user feedback.
> 
> Kodak XTOL is probably one of the finest film developers to date. Inspite
> of numerous attempts at trying to get Kodak Singapore to bring the stuff
> in, and for the past three years, they have refused to do so. At $2 per
> liter pack, it will merely cost them less than $200 to ship in 50 packs to
> place in various major dealers' shopfronts to test the market. Instead of
> doing that, they just stuck to their belief that there is no demand in
> Singapore.
> 
> Dan K.