Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >> >> >> ________________________________________________________________ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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