Re: (erielack) Kodak

[Charles_Walsh_@_Berlex.com]

Ed,

I think your experience is fairly common throughout American
industry--unfortunately.  But Kodak is now fighting for its life because it
was run by dinosaurs for so long.

Chuck


                                                                                                                                          
                      Edward Mines                                                                                                        
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I've been buying steam locomotive photos from the original photographer.

He's very concerned that Kodak is discontinuing B&W paper at the end of the
year. The paper they sell now comes from a Kodak division in Latin America.

If you think about it, how many people other than rail fans do you know who
buy 8X10 B&W prints?

I know a little about photo processing having worked for Kodak so I tried
to find some other suppliers of paper. Illford and Agfa sell paper but they
are close to if not bankrupt so they may be eliminating marginal profit
lines too. Like the Kodachrome processors, the last company selling B&W
paper may increase the price significantly.

There are machines that can take a traditional B&W negative make a laser
jet copy but they are expensive enough that I don't expect many of the men
who sell old railroad photos to buy them. The prints I've seen aren't as
sharp as traditional, silver halide based prints either.

I worked for Kodak and left as part of the first layoff in 1978. The
chickens have come home to roost. Creative employees were thought to "rock
the boat". "Yes" men who never made a decision or never had an original
idea were the ones who got ahead.

Ed Mines




Edward B. Mines
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Hewlett, NY  11557
516 205-6523

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