Re: PhotoKina '96, the day after....(long)

[boblong@xxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Long)]

On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 23:50:04 +0100, Willem-Jan Markerink wrote:

|Yesterday I had the bi-annual privilege to visit the Mecca of
|Photography, the PhotoKina in Cologne, Germany.
|Here a review, with the following subjects:

Wonderful job!  The Russian connection is particularly fascinating.
Can't wait to see what comes of it.

|However, to my surprise the Agfa rep was quite relaxed in discussing
|the possibilities for other formats, as well as extending the
|sensitivity in IR. All a matter of marketing, which they had never
|done with this film, but mentioning to him the success of the
|Ilford, his eyes sparkled a little....who knows?

Here in the States, Agfa has no concept of marketing--at least not in
the areas to which I'm privy.  They have a belief in their own
rightness (the excecutives I've talked to are all German, but I
mustn't draw any conclusions) and pay little attention to marketplace
realities when they happen to run counter to the Agfa mindset.  I
wouldn't hold my breath for anything from Agfa.  On the other hand,
having failed utterly to penetrate the U.S. retail audio cassette
market, they are (or were?) a standard brand of blanks for
prerecording demos and so on because they offered a variety of lengths
that were hard to find elsewhere.  So perhaps I'm being unreasonably
negative (no pun intended) about them.  

|email with some people before this list was started: the SFX200 is
|also known as SP816T, and the old Traffic Camera Film is known as
|SP815T. The difference is that the old film uses a thin polyester

I've had some E-mail from B&H about the misleading Ilford listing in
their catalog.  Henry Posner still insists that the advance Ilford
information available to B&H called it SFX-750, but he says they will
be correcting the designation in the earlist possible catalog--either 
December or January.  (November has gone to press, and he's not sure
about December.)

|KODAK
|Too much APS glitter and glamour, I again felt like outcast. On my

And at one time they were so great about what are now known as niche
markets.  Anybody remember PCF?  Ah, well...


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