[Leica] Kodak retreats

[rhaightjr at yahoo.com (Bob Haight)]

So hopefully, the rest of their film line won't go the
way of Kodachrome. I believe the press release stated
essentially that Kodak is going entirely digital at
some point which they now realize will be much sooner
than they had predicted.

--- 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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