P. J. Alling wrote: >Mark Roberts wrote: >> P. J. Alling wrote: >> >>> Isn't Film still profitable? >> >> On a per-roll or percentage basis. But making a big percentage profit >> per roll doesn't work when the number of rolls sold drops below a >> certain level. >> >> So a "roll of film" is very profitable but "film" isn't.
>Yes, except that Kodak isn't at that point yet. In fact every >breakdown I've ever seen of their profits by division has them >making money in film sales and chemicals and losing money on >digital imaging. There's not enough profit in it now. >Eventually it may happen that operating profits on film will entirely >disappear They have to sell of their film division long *before* that happens! (Otherwise no one will buy it!) >but with proper planning they don't have to. I don't believe that for a moment. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
