[LRFlex] Re: interesting coffee break

Dave food for thought. Good post.
Kevin

Dave Saalsaa <SaalsD@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I had an interesting coffee break with an old friend who used to be a 
professional portrait photographer in my home town. Now he works for 
Kodak's digital imaging division. He was visiting some old friends in town 
and we had a chance to chat about the state of film and digital imaging 
products. Various topics included the demise of Ilford, Agfa, looming 
bankruptcy of Hasselblad and the projected dimise of Kodachrome. Seems a 
new closed system for Kodachrome processing had been developed but arrived 
too late on the scene. The processor operated on a sealed system of only 5 
gallons of processor unlike the old system of about 450 gallons of various 
processors and dye coupler fluids. I am not well versed on the exact process 
but do know from him that the waste product of Kodachrome processing is 
cyanide and invironmental concerns have led to the closing of the many 
Kodachrome processing centers in the US and around the world. It turns out 
the new machine would have done away with these concerns but consumption of 
Kodachrome being deminshed over the years didn't warrant the new technology 
to pump life into waning Kodachrome sales. Very sad, eh Doug Herr?
We also talked about the future of Kodak in the digital market and he said 
although it is a very volatile industry, Kodak's role in digital cameras 
looked fairly bright. Knowing that Kodak also had it's hands in the 
development of the Leica Digital back for the R8 and R9 asked him about the 
delay until spring of '05. He said he couldn't comment on that delay but 
told me not to hold my breath. Without saying the words, he gave me the 
impression that the digital back may not happen in April either. Makes the 
Canon DSLR look all the more an option and if Leica can't deliver the 
digital back at all it will not bode well for R9 sales.

Dave 

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