[rollei_list] Re: The Future of Film

One problem with Kodak was that it made it almost impossible to be a Kodak 
dealer. I know many labs that dropped Kodak because Kodak demanded they make 
purchases beyond reason. The MBAs must have had a death wish or something 
because such a demand was sure to lessen their market presence.

Doug Nygren

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From: Marc James Small <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date:  Thu, 16 Jun 2005 18:55:34 -0400

>Kodak is getting out of the B&W paper business;  the ending of its B&W film
>and chemistry offerings is only a matter of time.
>
>Many have commented on the reality that other companies will continue to
>fill this market, perhaps for the long haul.  The problem with this is that
>Kodak dominated the US market so thoroughly that AGFA and Ilford were often
>hard to find in camera stores, though Fuzzy had bullied its way into the
>door of many of these shops over the past ten years.
>
>Given the explosion of digital in recent years, most local camera stores
>have gone over to the Dark Side.  And, with Kodak out of the picture, they
>are not going to fill the gap with Ilford, Agfa, Berger, or Forte products:
> they are just going to reduce their film offerings to consumer color
>films.  They have seen the light and will simply concentrate on digital
>cameras and accessories.
>
>Within five years, only those living in a megalopolis will enjoy the
>existence of a local store stocking any analog film materials.  For the
>rest of us, it will be suppliers from some large city, ordered over the
>Internet and delivered by mail.
>
>I miss the days when I could get a large variety of developers and
>chemicals and films and papers at a photo store two blocks from my office.
>Now, it is all digital, and as Kodak recedes from the analog market, so
>shall they.
>
>(And I have had nothing but snarls and problems with B&H:  they fouled up
>three orders in a row a decade back, and I swore that I would never again
>do business with them.  But, now, I probably will have no choice ... and I
>will hate myself for going back to drink from a polluted well.)
>
>Marc
>
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