[pure-silver] Re: Kodak sells sensor business

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  • Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:10:36 -0700

I don't know of one, but then again Kodak might still survive.  They will have to accept that the days of the Fortune 500 are over till they develop new technology.  They can survive with film IF they are willing to accept being a niche market instead of being the great yellow father.  Film isn't going totally away.  They will have to change how they look at the numbers and remember one thing.  Few people ever went broke taking a small profit.  That will mean some big changes in how they produce and maybe with what they produce it.  Employees will likely work less or for less, but they might still have a job.

There are still areas where Kodak could excel, but the huge bureaucracy that develops as a big corporation tends to stunt the growth of new ideas.  The bureaucrats will have to be let go before that can happen.  Timing will be the key.  They better be working smart now to have something ready before they run out of cash and divisions to sell off.
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Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Kodak sells sensor business
From: Bogdan Karasek <BKarasek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, November 08, 2011 8:54 pm
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi all,

I haven't been waiting, already frozen 10x 100' reels of Tri-x 35mm,  didn;t get the Plus-x demise, so only manged to get 30x 120 Plus-x,  get wind of the Demise of Tri-X 320 and stocked up, 100x 120 and 10boxes,   4x5 sheet... better start stockpiling the 400 Tri-x in 120 and 4x5 and 8x10.   Have to remember glass plates...  :)

If Kodak goes under, is there another US maker of film?    Rebadged ARISTA is European, so any thing left?

Cheers, :(
Bogdan

On 08/11/2011 2:39 PM, Don Sweet wrote:
Following that link I see the buyer has the auspicious name Platinum Equity, and that it is also buying research facilities from Kodak.  Platinum's web site sets out its guiding principles; they plainly don't  value niche markets or heritage technology.  Should we be stockpiling Tri-X and HC110?
 
Don Sweet
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