[LRflex] Re: Future R system
- From: Robert Lilley <speyerdom@xxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:47:38 -0400
I use Adox, Efke, Fotofoma and Bergger photographic materials along with
Svetlana vacuum tubes. Hmm.. is there a pattern here?
Rob
On Aug 7, 2010, at 10:11 AM, David Young wrote:
> Dave Simms offered:
>
>> I wouldn't want to appear like a Luddite but, I think that Big Business is
>> really putting the hard sell on digital. On the other hand, smaller, more
>> marginal companies like Adox etc, are buying up the old technology;
>> the film and
>> paper fabricating machines and techniques from the big operators
>> like Kodak, to
>> fill the void.
>
>
> Dave, Andy, et al...
>
> You know, you can still by vacuum tubes (valves in the UK)... and the
> transistor revolution started in the late 60's and was pretty
> much complete by the mid 1970's.
>
> Yet you can still buy tubes.
>
> No, they're not made in Schenectady, NY, or Pittsburgh, like they
> used to be. These days they are made in Cambodia, Vietnam, Ukraine
> and Belarus. As the main makers no longer found their manufacture
> profitable, they sold their equipment to small makers, in countries
> with low-cost labour and facilities.
>
> Film will go the same way... with small firms, like Adox buying last
> generation coating machines from Kodak & Fuji, etc., and in turn,
> somebody we've never heard of will buy the gear when Adox no longer
> finds it profitable.
>
> So, film won't go away... though it may prove difficult to come by...
> perhaps only by mail for all but those who live in very major
> centers. Similarly, processing will survive, but only in a few firms
> who can gain sufficient volume to make it profitable.
>
> Of course, developing at home will always be an option, though, once
> again, the chemicals will probably have to be shipped to you from one
> of a very small number of stores who find it worthwhile to stock the stuff.
>
> Of course, you can always follow the lead of Tom A' (of Rapidwinder
> fame)... he has a freezer full of B&W film, and enough chemicals (he
> mixes his own developers) to last him the next 20 years!
>
> So, use your R3's through R9's, your OM-1s and old Spotmatics without
> worry. Just be aware that the more time goes by, the more patience
> you'll need!
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