Steve Shapiro (sgshiya@redshift.com)
Mon, 19 Apr 1999 16:44:26 -0700
Subject: Re: Digital is not *easier* [Was: Too much equipment]
> S. Shapiro wrote
> <Big Snip>
> >It is just this group who can make the difference. In fact, I bet if
> >Sullivan got pledges and deposits from us, they'd make Pan XX again --
> >$8,000 worth at up dated prices pr.
> >
> >Go make pictures, use digital, have fun. I'm dead serious; and you
> >mentioned print: Going from digital into print is exactly what it was
made
> >for, in my view; but NOW it becomes aparent ... if we don't stand up for
> >what we want the big companies will roll over us.
>
> >Tools are what's needed to use, people are used to being needed.
> >, Carmel, CA
>
> Yeah Steve, you are right, to a point. Try and get the great YELLOW (Now
> meaning chicken) Father to produce Matrix for dye transfer. Kodabromide.
> etc etc.
>
> I think we need to support the small concerns that have the guts to
> reinvent Kodak's wheel and survive on making a living rather than making
> mlillions' livings for them. Kodak could give a #$%^ about us. and most
of
> us have spent a small fortune individually with them either directly, or
> through an employer. I just don't buy the idea they will keep
> manufacturing product as long as there is a "distributor quantity"
involved.
>
> I wish the situation were otherwise.
>
> Michael
>
I'm glad you mentioned dye transfer; because through this list I learned
there's a company making the matrix from Kodak's patent, as we speak. It's
in Texas and it supports excatly what I suggest. Band together and buy in
groups.
Kind of brings to mind what the Harvard Professor, Timothy Learey suggested
by talking about tribes.
S. Shapiro
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