Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Over here Kodak is well present in large surface stores (Fnac f.i.) where they have a workstation present: you put in your CD-Rom, CF, SD, or whatever medium and a few days later you can go and get your prints. I'm not sure if there's the option of sending it home, but in a small country like ours people don't mind to walk a few metres to get into a shopping centre or so. We have a few online solutions, too (tried Sony and Spector, didn't try "our own" Agfa), but they tend to get complicated for a vast number of people: you have to reformat, download programs, you need bandwith etc, and I don't think the majority of P&Sers has the time, knowledge or will to do this kind of stuff. The above is ofcourse only for the consumer market: biggest sizes are 10x15 (cm) and the quality of a 150 dpi of that size is a shame for cameras with good lenses, well developed film or good sensors. I store my (analog and properly scanned or digital) on my harddisk at max format and dpi tiff format. Very seldom I make prints anymore, and if I ever would need some, I wouldn't mind having them printed in a pro lab, even at a higher cost. --- > From: Daniel Ridings <daniel.ridings@edd.uio.no> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 13:24:07 +0200 (MEST) > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Kodak closure.... > > Yes, Fuji closed down a lab in Sweden too, but it was a lab designed for > film processing (negative and transparencies). They are still doing well > in all of their small labs that can effectively handle digital. > > Kodak missed the boat here. There is a Swedish photography magazine that > does its yearly duty of review the labs. This time it was labs doing > prints from digital. They gave up on Kodak and didn't even cover them. > Kodak, they explained, has been a moving target (literally). Their webpage > kept moving around that they finally lost track of them. None of the > editors could even figure out how to send digital files to Kodak to get > them printed. So far all intents and purposes, Kodak is no longer a player > on the Swedish market. All due to totally incompetent marketing, not a bad > product. > > Fuji does well and Agfa came out on the very top when it came to > quality ... and they just happened to be the cheapest too. Mind you, we're > not talking about "Fuji" or "Agfa" really, but smaller enterprises and > some might take their work more seriously than others. > > So if Kodak would just get their act together (in Europe at least) for > delivering prints from digital, they wouldn't be so hard hit. > > I can still pass by the custom lab here in Oslo and get anything from > processing and contacts (color or b/w) to large scale prints (color or > b/w). > > It's looking tougher. I _have_ started to bunker up in 120. I'm hoping > Kodak will keep at least 1 b/w film around in 35mm. My guess is that it > would be Tmax, so I've gone over to it. I'm just being careful. Things are > going pretty fast now and the demands shareholders make on corporations > are pretty tough. Now-a-days shareholders are usually institutions with > little or no concern for the core business per se, just the bottom line, > and not annually, but quarterly. > > Daniel > > > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Kenneth Frazier wrote: > >> This from the Guardian online: >> >>> Adam Jay >>> Tuesday October 5, 2004 >>> >>> Kodak today announced 600 UK job losses and the closure of a >> Nottingham factory as the world's largest photography company continued >> to shift its focus towards digital cameras. >>> >>> The group is to shut down its photographic film finishing plant at >> Annesley, near Nottingham, with the loss of 350 jobs. It will also end >> some operations in Harrow, Middlesex, reducing the 1,350-strong >> workforce there by 250. >> >> url: >> >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1320088,00.html >> >> Ken Frazier >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >