Bob Shell wrote: >On Feb 8, 2007, at 6:57 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >> With the volumes of film processing dropping into the sewer, >> according to everyone in the photofinishing business this past year, >> I think the cash cow's milk has become sour. > >Film hasn't been a cash cow for years. More like a cash goat, and >maybe a pygmy goat at that. >Time to sell and move on. Companies that live in the past end up in >the dust.....
Yeah, there might be enough profit in film for it to be worthwhile to a small, niche company, but even Kodak hasn't downsized itself that far. Time to sell it off while they can still get some money for it. Last summer a friend of mine who's a research chemist at Kodak was reminiscing about the golden era of film: "Man, it was like having a license to print money! It cost us less to make the film than for the box and packaging we put it in." I don't know if his comment about the cost of the packaging was intended to be taken literally, but he was clearly wistful about the "good old days" :) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
