On 2/8/07, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott Loveless wrote: > > > I really expected Kodak to be the last man standing.
I wasn't very clear. What I meant to say was that I expected to Kodak to hold on to the film business to the bitter end. > > <boggle> > You must be referring to a different "Kodak" than the one I've been > observing for the past 20 years or so! I'm surprised they've survived > this long, given their management. > > If Kodak wasn't planning on selling off their film division(s) before, > they'd better be now because the rumor alone is going to decrease the > value of anything associated with the word "film". They need to sell > ASAP while they still can. > > My bets: Fuji to take the motion picture stuff. Most other stuff to be > split off every which way. Except Kodachrome, which will die a quiet > death. I agree somewhat. Kodachrome will die. Who would really want to take that off their hands? Fuji and others could probably make use of Kodak's film technology. But my real guess is that Kodak will blow it and all of their film products will die along with them. I hope I'm wrong. I'd like to be able to buy Tri-X (even if it's Fuji or Ilford Tri-X) for the next decade or two. Something I hadn't thought of earlier is that Lucky may end up with at least some of it. Not sure if that would be good for product quality, but if they get the emulsion right it wouldn't be all bad. -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com Shoot more film! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
