Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Another Rochester survivor of those days was Bausch & Lomb. Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Chris Saganich <chs2018 at med.cornell.edu>wrote: > > Eastman set-up that town for failure early on. Before Eastman put the > screws to the place Rochester was one of the most successful and creative > cities in the North East regarding technology. That's the reason Eastman > set up shop there because of the already highly advanced work in precision > manufacturing and optical work. Eastman came to complete dominate the > Rochester economy choking off or swallowing up nearly every other business > in town. Xerox, named Haloid at the time was a photo supply operation and > survived the Eastman onslaught because they were so small as to go > unnoticed. They bought the rights to a process invented by a clerk in an > electrical machine patten office to copy diagrams for patten research and > then developed photo-copy paper and machines to use the process. By that > time Rochester was already a efficient company town and Xerox despite its > innovative spirit couldn't return Rochester to its pre-Kodak dynamic > economy. Efficient company towns are destined to stagnate and fail so if > your living in one get-out while you can and don't look back! > > Chris > > > At 11:30 AM 4/1/2010, you wrote: > >> *Q. What percent of your sales are film cameras?* >> >> The film cameras are running under 5 percent. >> >> This doesn't really tell me anything. Is that based on unit sales or >> revenue? >> >> Even if you knew the answer, the real question is how many units of >> film cameras were sold last year compared to the units sold the year >> before that. >> >> >> >> Richard Man wrote: >> > Sad. The digital onslaught continues... >> > >> > >> >> http://www.northjersey.com/news/89346507_Leica_president_focused_on_big_picture.html?c=y&page=1 >> > >> - - - - - - - >> >> The real question is how much film is being sold and how long will it >> continue to be available. Film cameras live a very long time. I took some >> pictures the other day with a 60 year old camera (Leica IIIc) using an 80 >> year old lens (Elmar 35mm f3.5). According to my two relatives still >> gainfully employed at at Kodak the commercial film operation will be shut >> down within 10 years. This brings a sense of gloom and doom to Rochester, >> NY, a city that prospered on the basis of full Kodak employment. Too bad. >> Rochester and its suburbs are really quite nice and houses and real estate >> are going at a small fraction of their price in boom years. >> >> Now if everyone bought Leicas with Kodak made sensors - - - >> >> Larry Z (a dissatisfied Kodak stockholder) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >