Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 9/25/03 3:29:36 AM, bill_clough@yahoo.com writes: << The Associated Press broadcast wire is reporting that today, the Wall Street Journal will announce that Kodak is preparing to move away from traditional film and into digital technology. It says Kodak hopes to compete head on with Hewlett-Packard, Canon and Epson by launching a line of ink-jet printers. Kodak also says it will make no more significant long-term investments in traditional consumer film. --Bill Clough >> - ------------------------------------------------------------------- Methinks Kodak management is trying to shore up the price of Kodak stock on Wall Street by showing that Kodak is a with-it company. Business is dynamic. If Fuji starts making big money on film, Kodak will jump back in. By then it may be too late. The Yellow Box Car may remain at the end of the train. Most likely, Kodak will maintain their R&D in film under a different account classification. Future film stocks might carry digital processing and other information and dry processing could make a revolutionary appearance. As Kodak engineers said in a newsclip a read a few years ago: Only 20% of film's potential has been exploited. You couldn't say that about the horse or the telegraph or the steam engine. bob rosen - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html