Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The loss of several B&W film makers will divert sales to the two remaining suppliers, and that can't be too bad for them. Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Don Dory Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 9:56 PM To: lug@leica-users.org Subject: [Leica] B&W film I don't think that anybody who cares to shoot B&W will have anything to worry about over the course of a decade to a century. In a world wide market of 6 billion people it does not take but a miniscule minority to make a market big enough to allow a small company to make money. People still paint in oils and individuals still choose to have themselves and family members painted in oil. Horses are still widely available as are buggy whips. Stone masons are still available to carve gargoyles for your mansion. People still tune in to short wave radio. As to corporations right sizing, corporations have tremendous overhead and tend to seek huge volumes and rather large profit margins. Smaller companies can succeed with rather small numbers and relatively small margins. Tom and his rapid winders is one example of a small enterprise filling a void that larger companies have stayed away from. As the larger companies decide that being number three in a market is not profitable enough, they tend to sell production equipment to a group that sees possibilities in a smaller operation. At PMA I talked with a now ex-Kodak executive that was taking over their archival CD and DVD business. At Kodak he had researched what was necessary to make a CD/DVD last and had set up the business for Kodak. The corporation was not interested so he is working on developing that business for himself. Cheers, Don dorysrus@mindspring.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information