Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/05

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Subject: [Leica] INCORRECTLY R.I.P. ILFORD
From: hellman at comcast.net (Jesse Hellman)
Date: Sun Sep 5 07:44:14 2004
References: <6.1.2.0.2.20040904213943.0208f3d0@mail.screengang.com> <001c01c492bf$1005a230$6601a8c0@ccapr.com> <6.1.2.0.2.20040904224610.02326000@mail.screengang.com> <413A4B0B.1040205@summaventures.com>
 
"'Despite the decline in the monochrome market the
business has a very significant market share,' said
Les Ross of Grant Thornton."

Even were the traditional black and white part of the company to be sold 
off from the ink jet part, it is still a company with considerable sales 
and excellent products.

Kodak stopped its black and white film research and I bet that this also 
will happen with Ilford. Research is expensive. So that we will still 
have Delta films, but not the next generation.

Which is very sad.

Maybe the scientist(s) at Ilford can join up with Silvia Zawadsky in New 
York. A new little company with black and white film and paper research 
as their only product.

Jesse
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