Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/21

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Subject: [Leica] Kodak retreats
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Thu Jul 21 12:33:37 2005

Excellent suggestion, Seth - The x,000 members of the LUG will definitely
make the difference in keeping Kodak afloat and in the film business. ;-)


On 7/21/05 3:27 PM, "Seth Rosner" <sethrosner@nycap.rr.com> wrote:

> Doug, I believe that Kodak had announced in January that it was trimming
> 15,000 jobs world-wide; this announcement added 10,00 job cuts to total
> 25,000.
> 
> Last year I invited Kodak to send a representative to speak at the LHSA
> annual meeting on Kodak, digital and film. She did and assure us that Kodak
> was not abandoning silver halide but was rationalizing its production to
> eliminate film that was insufficiently used to be commercially viable for
> them. They may have changed policy since then but she was asked 
> specifically
> if Kodak was going to eliminate TRI-X or Kodachrome; the answer as to TRI-X
> was no, as to K-chrome was they had already eliminated K25 but were
> continuing to produce and suppot 64 and 200.
> 
> I suggest all doom-and-gloomers go to the Kodak website and click on
> "Pro-photographer/Lab" to see the film emulsions they produce, including
> some new emulsions. K64 and K200, six different Professional Ektachrome
> emulsions, two brand-new Ultra Professional color print films with high
> color saturation.
> 
> In b+w Kodak continues Tri-X, three T-MAX emulsions: 100, 400 and 3200,
> Plus-X 125, High-speed infra-red and BW400 CN, the b+w chromogenic film.
> 
> All are professional films, therefore fresh and dated and they have on the
> website a service where you input your location and they will give you the
> location of a dealer for the product you want.
> 
> Instead of lamenting the demise of Kodak film, I would think we who use and
> love their films would make an effort to use them so that rumors of Kodak's
> end of film production does not become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
> 
> C'mon, guys and gals, get back on the yellow box. I still have hundreds of
> Kodachrome slides that are 55 years old whose color is still as vivid as
> when the yellow boxes  came back to me in 1950 et seq.
> 
> Seth
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "dnygr" <dnygr@cshore.com>
> To: <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 2:33 PM
> Subject: [Leica] Kodak retreats
> 
> 
>> I read this morning in The New York Times that Kodak is going to trim
>> 10,000 jobs. Deutsche Welle reports, however, that Kodak is going to shed
>> 25,000 jobs.
>> 
>> Whether this means for the future of film, I don't know, but I do know
>> that it means I will quickly start to figure out what products to buy as
>> replacements for the Kodak items I use. They have lost my confidence.
>> 
>> I would have thought that Kodak would keep some presence in the film world
>> so that it could outlast the lesser capitalized companies, but it looks
>> like Kodak's chief has ordered a general retreat.
>> 
>> Doug Nygren
>> 
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