Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/14

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Subject: [Leica] Film options -- what's special
From: buzz.hausner at verizon.net (buzz.hausner@verizon.net)
Date: Wed Jul 14 11:38:45 2004
 
...and then, maybe we won't.
> 
> From: Afterswift@aol.com
> Date: 2004/07/14 Wed PM 02:27:33 EDT
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] Film options -- what's special
> 
> 
> > At the time I corresponded with Kodak they had announced that they'd 
> discontinued making film cameras, except for the disposable type. I was 
> curious about 
> what other plans they had for film production. What may be 'special' is 
> the 
> direction R&D will take film now. Self-setting white balance? 
> Simplification of 
> processing?
> Synchronization between film and an LCD display on a reengineered film 
> camera? There might be some crossover between digital and film reminiscent 
> of what 
> happened in the car field now that the Toyota hybrid engine has even 
> penetrated 
> the minds of the geniuses who run the Ford Motor Company. We might even 
> get 
> an ISO 800 T-Max film with imperceptible grain to the unaided eye in a 
> 16x20 
> print. 
> 
> Bob  
> 
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