Re: Kodak shriks with changing times
I agree with you- when I have ordered two cameras both in 120 format in
Japan- they have taken two years to get to the West Coast on North America-
I was told that I had one of the three 690s' shipped to the West Coast in
2004!.
Well worth the wait and they are still producing quality cameras- Fuji and
Horseman.
Susan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryuji Suzuki" <rs@silvergrain.org>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 1:52 AM
Subject: Re: Kodak shriks with changing times
One thing that news reporters never seem to learn is that the
biggest users of films are those who don't have cameras. On
one end there is a big market for release prints of motion
picture, and on another end there is medical imaging
application. These guys keep the emulsion plant running and
the rest of us (especially the pictorial b&w films) are
dealing with a market of size far smaller than those.
Another thing that those reporters never seem to realize is
that the last 8mm movie camera was discontinued in mid-1980,
but there are companies (namely Fujifilm and Eastman Kodak
Company) who still supply film for 8mm movie cameras. It is
quite fallacious to imply that, if the last 35mm camera is
discontinued today, the world becomes filmless tomorrow. For
past few years, the decline in film camera market was very
steep, but that in film market was more gradual. Indeed, all
camera manufacturers in Japan combined ship merely a couple of
hundred medium and large format cameras every month, and they
could drop to zero any day, but I don't think 120 and 4x5 film
will disappear anytime soon.
My favorite Kodak:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot9erQxX-cY
--
Ryuji Suzuki
"Don't play what's there, play what's not there." (Miles Davis)
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