[alt-photo] Re: Official press release about HP large formatnegatives

[Terry King]

Smaller markets need smaller manufacturers. 



Why aren't you making these things ?


TK




-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Schmitz <coldbay1 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 7:49
Subject: [alt-photo] Re: Official press release about HP large formatnegatives


Sorry to hear that you feel that way Judy.  Perhaps you're only saying this because you're a gummist and don't want to have to mine and grind those pigments.  Sarcastically, I can't help but wonder how photography every got invented without, Kodak, Agfa or Dupont?  No doubt, you're not alone in your view.  Recently, I have had to go overseas to buy products that are similar to those that used to be made and sold by big corporations here (AMPEX, 3M, DuPont, Kodak); apparently the items were not profitable enough for the behemoths.  In all cases the products are now being manufactured by small concerns in other countries.  At the risk of getting too political - we've grown pretty dumb (and lazy) over here of late and swallowed the line of BS that has been dished out for us. 
 
--g 
 
On 7/17/10 8:19 PM, Judy Seigel wrote: 
> 
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, G Schmitz wrote: 
> 
>> .... If I use a digital printer, produced by a large corporation, >> who's getting it up the shorts? 
>> 
>> --greg 
> 
> 
> Greg, I doubt you mean that message to be as sweeping as it sounds.... > I'd guess that the only way to make a print today without *anything* > "produced by a large corporation" would be via the proverbial rock & > chisel (& some corp has probably got a corner on the rocks & makes the > chisels)... 
> 
> Better, presumably, to skim the "large corps" for our own purposes -- > ie., why spend all that time chiseling rocks...? 
> 
> J. 
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