Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] APS out ?
From: Feliciano di Giorgio <feli@d2.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 15:57:35 -0800
References: <20020206233455.47577.qmail@web9507.mail.yahoo.com>

Why did Kodak consider APS a failure? I seems to be selling well and
lots of the finegrain technology they developed for it went in to
their other formats.

fei


Stephen Patriquen wrote:
> 
> I believe Kodak has stopped further R&D into APS.
> 
> Personally, I thought it was a format with great benefits
> to the photofinishing industry and few to the consumer.
> 
> I know that internally, it was considered a failure at
> Kodak as long ago as 1998, when I was training many Kodak
> engineers who had been switched from APS development (no
> pun intended) to CD-R.
> 
> Not that they had any more luck with CD-R...

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