Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bob, Kodachrome isn't gone, K25 is gone along with the ready local availability of Kodachrome processing facilities. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Haight" <rhaightjr@yahoo.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 11:57 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Kodak retreats > 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 >> > >> > >> > >> > ________________________________________________________________ >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug >> for more information >> > >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for >> more information >> > > > > > ____________________________________________________ > Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >