[pure-silver] Re: Kodak Discontinuing All Black and White Paper
- From: "Luigi Pasto" <luigi.pasto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:24:15 -0400
Hello Philippe,
Both Lauzeau and Photo Service in Montreal still stock Kodak paper in very
limited quantities, sizes, and types. By the way, what B&W only photo club
to you belong to in Montreal? I've been looking for a while without any
success.
Louie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philippe Gauthier" <pgauth@xxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:36 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Kodak Discontinuing All Black and White Paper
> At 06:18 15-06-05 -0700, you wrote:
>
>> I just got word from my contact at Kodak that they will be
> discontinuing all black and white paper. The official announcement will be
> made later today.=20
>> Kodak will continue making B&W film and chemicals.=20
>> The reason boils down to paper no longer being a profitable market.=20
>
> The truth is that they just lost the market to Ilford and Agfa, I think. I
> noticed last week that the last store in Montr=E9al who used to carry the
> Kodak line of paper no longer does. Meanwhile, Ilford and to a lesser
> extent, Agfa papers, are easily found in the few good photo stores left.
> BTW, I belong to a B&W only photo club and I know no one who uses/used
> Kodak paper. Maybe they are/were good, maybe not, but they certainly
> completely failed to market them in the last 10 years here in Canada.
>
> No one here carries the more exotic brands - Forte, Bergger, Luminos... -
> unfortunately and it seems that the local stores cannot get them even in
> special order.=20
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