I just laughed when I heard the latest news about Kodak. They are the epitome of everything that is wrong with giant American corporations. I was especially amused by their far-too-typical solution to all their problems -- lay off lots of workers. Now there's something sure to make your customers (not to mention your remaining employees) happier. I didn't bother to see how Wall Street reacted, which, as we all know, is the ONLY thing that matters in corporate America.
I also find it comical that for the last several years, Kodak has done NOTHING but bitch about how Fuji is using unfair trading practices to gain market share. Hmm, unfair, as in offering a superior product at a lower price -- gee, I hate it when companies do that. Then there's the issue of attention to the customer. You all read Mike Cleary's post about the Fuji processing screw-up where they apologized to him and sent him some free mailers. Ever hear of Kodak giving a rats ass about any of its customers? Kodak is in the same league as Nikon when it comes to that. My all time favorite story about Kodak customer service is how THEY would screw up your slides during processing, and then enclose a note blaming YOU (e.g. Dear Customer: your camera apparently leaves chemical stains, fingerprints, scratches, and sawdust on your film -- you should have it checked.) In light of the layoffs, I've got a few questions for you all: First, how many of you think service at Kodalux is going to improve as a result of Kodak's 'restructuring'? We ALL know what a sore point this has been over the past 10 years. How many think the quality of Kodachrome will likewise improve? And how many of you are still stuck in the dark ages shooting that crap anyway, steadfastly refusing to even TRY another emulsion, because the Great Yellow God told you not to? God must love the ignorant; he sure as hell made a lot of them. Yea, I still shoot SOME K25, and I think it has its uses, but if it went away tomorrow, I'd live. Personally, Kodak can go straight to hell as far as I'm concerned -- wouldn't affect my life in the least. Oh yea, I WAS going to post a hi-res scan of a shot I did in NM a couple of weeks ago on K25 which I wanted you all to look at. However, it turns out that the scan does NOT reveal enough fine detail for my purposes. What I wanted to show is how bad motion blur is on K25 with a 50mm lens at 1/500 on a tripod. I have several slides which CLEARLY illustrate this effect, and prove that the problem is NOT camera motion or focusing error. My question is, why does the motion blur look SO much worse on K25 than on any of the Fuji films (or even K64 for that matter)? Grumpy [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eesoft.com/rr Jim Gilley [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eesoft.com/rr --> SPORRS: Serious Photographers of Railroad Related Subjects
