[Leica] decline in LUG membership

[hellman at comcast.net (Jesse Hellman)]

Yes, that post  caught our attention, for sure. What we can never count 
on is the speed of progress. It is almost always faster than we project. 
I wonder if when Kodak switched over to their new plant for B & W it was 
to a plant that had been especially designed to be used for increasingly 
LESS film, with the extra capacity going to other in-demand products, 
like Twinkies.

Mark Rabiner wrote:
>>snippet<   A local Walmart in Asheville no longer even offers one-hour  
>>developing,
>>probably because demand is too low. The main one-hour places in  Asheville 
>>now
>>-- which often takes two hours --are the drug-store chains  and K-Mart. {Of
>>course, Walmart stores in other cities still offer one-hour  service.]
>>  Kodak's end of 120 format will affect Rolleiflex and other 2x2 TTL  
>> reflex