Quoting "Chuck ." <speedgraphic@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > the analog photo business to continue producing their products then we have > to buy those products... Kodak does not want to be in that market. Ilford, > > Agfa, and a few others do. Forget Kodak. Buy Ilford, Agfa, Forte, et al... Agfa clearly don't want to be in that market and that's why they split the consumer imaging group out into "AgfaPhoto" which then filed in short order for bankruptcy. And AgfaPhoto? The patents and trademarks are in the holding company and the production? Well.... Rollfilm (ALL not just B&W) have been discontinued. And among the films for 35mm.. Scala, Vista-100, Vista-800, Ultra-100 and quite a few other films have been given the axe. We've seen their fixed grade papers go.. now we are probably seeing their RA-4 papers go and probably their multigrade B&W papers as well.. Even products like Viradon I think are probably history.. Agfa has retained the industrial imaging portions which include microfilm and cine sound and positive print but I suspect that they will be selling from stock on hand as its increasingly difficult to see how they will continue to produce given the large scale of their gear... I don't know what or where Agfa wants to be with silver halide imaging but I suspect it might not be "in business"... We will see how things progress over the next few months but I increasingly see little hope for AgfaPhoto and instead a cynical game played all to often over the past few years in Germany... New elections are in 2 weeks and I can well imagine the next "AgfaPhoto" adjustment will follow hot on its heels... -- -- Edward C. Zimmermann, Basis Systeme netzwerk, Munich Office Leo (R&D): Leopoldstrasse 53-55, D-80802 Munich, Federal Republic of Germany http://www.nonmonotonic.net ============================================================================================================= 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.