The whole problem with B&W materials is that they are dated items. As use ramps
down more and more sits unsold in warehouses and winds up being scrapped. That is
what is hurting the manufactures right now. Once the market stablises at a lower
level then they can produce what they can sell and have no problems except they
have to downsize.
Most sensitive materials manufacturers will make a custom production run of about
anything if you will by the whole run. A run of film is something like 45 inchs by
several hundred feet. That is a lot of film, but there are companies having that
done. Freestyle and J&C Photo in the US come immediately to mind.
You can probably sell a run of about anything at the right price. The problem
is coming up with the money for it up front. The new model is definately going
to be mailorder from central distribution centers rather than Wal-Mart however.
graywolf
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mike wilson wrote:
From: Frantisek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2005/06/16 Thu AM 08:42:40 GMT
To: Graywolf <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Kodak discontinues black-and-white paper
Time to stock up on double-X. How about starting a coop for producing
B&W ? And I mean this only half-jokingly...
Frantisek
I've thought about this for some time now. Also for procuction of spares for
cameras, whilst there are still new samples to reverse engineer. It's common
practice in the motorvehicle restoration world, though the setup cost for unit
return would be very high in this instance.
mike
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