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Kodak film
I was just talking to an old friend who has been working for Kodak for
almost 30 years. He tells me that Kodak is moving some film production back to the US from China due to quality concerns. He thinks it might be all over for film in 10 years. |
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Kodak film
"Art" wrote in message m... I was just talking to an old friend who has been working for Kodak for almost 30 years. He tells me that Kodak is moving some film production back to the US from China due to quality concerns. He thinks it might be all over for film in 10 years. "Over for film im 10 years" - For Kodak, probably, but for the rest of us film will certainly go out when the sky falls. No doubt about it. Seriously, before film goes away there will be several EMP disasters that blow away everything digital for miles around. Is that going to happen? Win/Win. |
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Art wrote:
I was just talking to an old friend who has been working for Kodak for almost 30 years. He tells me that Kodak is moving some film production back to the US from China due to quality concerns. He thinks it might be all over for film in 10 years. Sorry for the joke, but I guess that "Lucky" wasn't. Honestly if Kodak film lasts 10 years, I'd be really surprised. Kodak has to sell a large number of rolls of film in order to make it worth selling any at all. Smaller companies have less overhead, so they will stay profitable filling a niche with film. Ilford is making an effort to do so, and there are a few producers in Europe (EFKE, MACO). Besides, Lucky may get their production bugs worked out. :-) Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM |
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"Art" wrote in message m... He thinks it might be all over for film in 10 years. As long as for the foreseeable future most major (and probably many independent) motion pictures, TV shows, and commercials are shot on film, film is not going anywhere. |
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Because they have excess capacity due to slow demand of film in worldwide
market. Nowaday, just one plane is enough to supply the worldwide demand for film, therefore those plants in China are already closed. -- - ================== Lonely Boy http://www.hmlai.com/ ================== - "Art" ¼¶¼g©ó¶l¥ó·s»D:VamdnfPGithvcGHanZ2dnUVZ_qKgnZ2d@ea rthlink.com... I was just talking to an old friend who has been working for Kodak for almost 30 years. He tells me that Kodak is moving some film production back to the US from China due to quality concerns. He thinks it might be all over for film in 10 years. |
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Art wrote,on my timestamp of 10/04/2008 2:26 AM:
I was just talking to an old friend who has been working for Kodak for almost 30 years. He tells me that Kodak is moving some film production back to the US from China due to quality concerns. He thinks it might be all over for film in 10 years. without fail, the thread about the "impending doom" of film going away. In 10 years. That one was done 1 year ago. And 2. 3. 4. And even 5 years ago. According to these, it should have happened already. All that film in my fridge must be a figment, then. And the fact that I can buy it from just about anywhere. When is it gonna down on these idiots that film is *not* going away, no matter how much comfort they might need for their bad decision in buying their crap digital camera, totally outdated in 18 months? |
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson schrieb:
Art wrote: I was just talking to an old friend who has been working for Kodak for almost 30 years. He tells me that Kodak is moving some film production back to the US from China due to quality concerns. He thinks it might be all over for film in 10 years. Sorry for the joke, but I guess that "Lucky" wasn't. Honestly if Kodak film lasts 10 years, I'd be really surprised. Kodak has to sell a large number of rolls of film in order to make it worth selling any at all. Smaller companies have less overhead, so they will stay profitable filling a niche with film. Ilford is making an effort to do so, and there are a few producers in Europe (EFKE, MACO). Yes, Efke sucks more and more (Adox already filled Ilfords HP5+ into containers for 100 ASA-film where Efke was expected) and Maco is getting worse. They have "Rollei" film and use masterrolls, produced for 35mm film, to cut out 120 (or the other way round?). Beside this, kodak won't die. Andreas -- Fotos unter http://www.gugau-foto.de/ Special unter http://www.hoellenmusik.de/ Schottland unter http://www.whisky-guide.de/ |
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"AMEN!!!"
"Noons" wrote in message ... Art wrote,on my timestamp of 10/04/2008 2:26 AM: I was just talking to an old friend who has been working for Kodak for almost 30 years. He tells me that Kodak is moving some film production back to the US from China due to quality concerns. He thinks it might be all over for film in 10 years. without fail, the thread about the "impending doom" of film going away. In 10 years. That one was done 1 year ago. And 2. 3. 4. And even 5 years ago. According to these, it should have happened already. All that film in my fridge must be a figment, then. And the fact that I can buy it from just about anywhere. When is it gonna down on these idiots that film is *not* going away, no matter how much comfort they might need for their bad decision in buying their crap digital camera, totally outdated in 18 months? |
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