[pure-silver] Re: The new Kodak TV ad
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 08:17:48 -0700
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From: "Koch, Gerald" <gkoch02@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 7:56 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: The new Kodak TV ad
The reality is that sales of film has decreased by 25% for
each of the
past two years. If Kodak finds that sales of its B&W paper
are no
longer profitable why is it Kodak's fault? If people are
buying less
film then they are also buying less paper. Now you read of
people
boycotting Kodak film. Gee!, what a great way to have Kodak
decide to
stop making film.
Let's put the blame where it belongs, on the consumer who
has turned his
back on analog photography. If we want Agfa, Ilford, and
Kodak to
survive we need to buy their products. If you like a
certain product
then continue to buy it. "Don't cut your nose off to spite
your face."
as the old saying goes.
Jerry
This is exactly right. Kodak isn't trying to shaft
anybody. They have lost their original and largest market
through no fault of their own and are scrambling to survive.
Kodak began as a manufacturer of photographic materials
and all the other businesses they got into, including
pharmaceuticals and plastics, were in some way extensions of
photography. Digital photography is completely different
from chemical photography. About the only thing they have in
common is the use of paper for prints. Kodak was a very
large company and the domininant one in the world for
photographic materials of all sorts. Now, they are facing
very stiff competition from many sources for all the
materials used in digital work, cameras, scanners, paper,
ink, what have you. IMO they have done pretty well at
establishing themselves in the new field but are far from
being dominating it or even being an industry leader. There
have been changes in industries in the past due to something
or other becoming obsolete, but nothing I can think of on
this scale. Even the change from buggies to cars was much
slower and of a much smaller economic scale.
I want to see Kodak survive but, like many other current
businesses, it won't have much in common with the past
beyond the brand name.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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