Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]NOBODY in photography expected digital imaging to devastate the film industry more-or-less overnight.? We've ALL been playing catchup since, to one degree or another.?? Kodak fought harder and longer than most, and in the end the wheel just ran over them. Kind of like being the proprietor of the livery stable watching that first curved-dash Oldsmobile chug up the street.. "dammit, there goes the neighborhood."? But there wasn't a thing that could be done to stop it then, either. ? R. Clayton McKee PhotoJournalist from somewhere just south of somewhere else... >________________________________ > From: Jim Shulman <jshulman at judgecrater.com> >To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:36 PM >Subject: Re: [Leica] Kodak to support film. > >Problem with hindsight is that the obvious isn't until the very end. >Given Kodak's history--they controlled the market, film formats, etc., and >not the other way round--it's understandable that they would only to come >to this logical conclusion after exhausting all the other possibilities >(and their cash). > > >