Hello! You know, back when Great Yellow Father was a (virtual) monopoly, they were a wonderful company. They actually CARED about their professional customers, and made wonderful products like the Electric Brush, which I wish I could still find. It makes dust fall off film. And they maintained production on amateur film stocks for YEARS after significant demand was gone. But then came Fuji and Ilford and Ciba and there was serious competition, and anything that wasn't immediately profitable had to go. Of course they made some dumb moves (those disk camera things were truly gawd-awful), but so did companies like Apple Computer <g>. Now that I think of it, except for some boutique companies, there's nobody out there like the old EK...
Les > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laurie Solomon > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 1:12 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Kodak dropping 35mm and APS > cameras in N.A. > > > It would be nice if they would maintain a division that would > produce and market not only certain mainstay film products > but also certain specialty film products and chemistry - or > at least license them out to other smaller companies that > might rather than just discontinuing them. Reading between > the lines of this article, it reads as if Kodak will be > abandoning even their t-max, plus-x and tri-x films as well > as their e-6 and c-41 films. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
