Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/19

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: Re: [Leica] while we're at it: chromogenic
From: brad daly <bwdaly@hiwaay.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 18:58:04 -0500
References: <200107182155.f6ILtRX02465@mail.hiwaay.net>

>Because there isn't a large-enough market for it, and there is already
>competition?  Indeed, how many specialty films does Fuji produce?  They
seem to
>concentrate solely on films that have a very broad and large market, which
means
>mainly C-41 and E-6.

i'm not sure a chromogenic b&w is really a specialty film.  at the store
where i work , we sell more XP-2 than anything, save possibly the portra
films.  i really think there'd be a market for it, and i know the wedding
people would wet themselves over a 1600 speed chromogenic film.

- --brad


- --
brad daly	                  bwdaly@hiwaay.net
photographs: http://home.hiwaay.net/~bwdaly
"I can't imagine anything good about being blind and lame at the same time."
	--Alvin Straight
"War, what is it good for?  It's good for business."
	--Billy Bragg

In reply to: Message from "Bradford W. Daly" <bwdaly@mail.hiwaay.net> ([Leica] while we're at it: chromogenic)