----- Original Message ----- From: Bruce Dayton Subject: Re[4]: Another One Bites the Dust
> Unfortunately, they buying public (at least US) are very price > sensitive, much more so than quality or choice. So as long as Fuji > sells cheap Super HQ crap, people will buy it. They will acknowledge > Kodak doing much more, but never put their money where there mouth is. > Eventually a company like Kodak would have to say, enough is enough. You know, they can sell HQ as much as they want. People want cheap and cheerful print film. Kodak sells Funtime film to this market. What annoys me is that supplying small niches, such as the one that most photo artists find themselve in, is going to be impossible for a company like Kodak. No one else offers the support that they do, and no one will. When Kodak dropped dye transfer material, a significant photo imaging resource was lost. Did you know that dye transfer is the only truly archival colour process? It is. And we can't get the stuff anymore. This is not to say that Kodak hasn't had its share of marketing blunders, I can think of a half dozen real bonehead moves they have done. I am worried that they will have to consider supporting the photo artist a bonehead move in the not too distant future. William Robb - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
