[Leica] Kodak's Handwriting on the Wall

[dnygr at cshore.com (Douglas Nygren)]

When your employer starts talking about layoffs, when you get a hint 
your employer is sinking, it is high time to polish the resume and 
start sending it out.

Not to do so will leave you in a terrible position should your job be 
terminated in an effort to save the company or if the company outright 
folds.

All talk of loyalty is jibberish, especially when a godless corporation 
is involved.

I like and use some of Kodak's products, but  I need to have 
alternatives ready for when and if Kodak pulls the plug on the products 
I use.

Kodak did this to me even before the recent announcement that it will 
cease B&W paper production. Without notice, they stopped production of 
the special paper for hand-coloring. It's gone. Dropped. Instead I use 
Ilford fiber matt, a good paper for that, but more time consuming to 
print than Kodak's RC, which I found printed extremely well.

I hope Kodak will continue to produce the other product I use, but I 
can't assume they will. Hence, I will find alternative developers for 
my Jobo. And I will widen my B&W film palette.

Top of the day to all of you--Doug Nygren