Why not switched to someone left (like Ilford or Kodak), and support their business before they also have a drop in sales? It doesn¹t help the industry much if you make one dealer rich. BTW, where is your Agfa Photo Club? Regards Ralph W. Lambrecht On 2005-05-27 19:11, "Snoopy" <snoopy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well, no more detailed news here. AGFA Photo was spun off the AGFA=20 > conglomerate in November of last year, a management buy-out for 175,5=20 > Million Euros (about 140 Million US dollars). > > Apparently they had a massive caving in of film sales in the first quarter= > =20 > of this year and this continued throughout April and May. Sales dropped by= > =20 > over 18%...down to about 363 Million Euros (in 2004). > > We at the AGFA Photo Club noticed because a lot of materialy were quietly=20 > being removed from the list, basically the Brovira Speed RC papers in fixed= > =20 > gradation as well as fixed gradation baryt papers were gone. They only=20 > wanted to support multi-contrast (in RC anf FB). > > Don=B4t know what will happen to Rodinal and the paper developers. > > Incidentally I think this might also hit other film manufacturers because=20 > AGFA makes the 35mm-film CARTRIDGES for a lot of other film companies (also= > =20 > Fuji, Kodak etc). > > Me? I am going to buy a huge freezer and fill it with as much APX 100 as I= > =20 > can possibly fit. And another freezer for the paer I think... > > Love > Snoopy > > At 15:13 27.05.2005, you wrote: >> On 5/27/05, Claudio Bonavolta <claudio@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Not really good news from Agfa-Photo as they've announced insolvency. >>> =3D20 >>> For those who read german (better than me and maybe can give more infos= > ?=3D >> ): >>> http://minilien.fr/a0jztp >> >> Well that really sucks. Ilford will be happy though. >> >> You can get a rough translation by piping the URL into: >> http://www.google.ca/language_tools?hl=3D3Den >> >> But it's the same old story: "digital". >> >> *sigh* >> >> J >> >> >> >> --=3D20 >> Justin F. Knotzke >> jknotzke@xxxxxxxxx >> http://www.shampoo.ca >> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >> To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your=20 >> account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you=20 >> subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. > > ============================================================================== > =============================== > To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your > account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) > and unsubscribe from there. ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.