Re: XTOL & HIE?

[boblong@xxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Long)]

On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 23:44:15 GMT, Jeffrey Clay wrote:

|not sure of the exact number.  also, i was very surprised that kodak
|published such an informitive pub.

To someone who has been around a long time, this is a depressing
statement.  At one time, Kodak's information dissemination was
absolutely superb--by a wide margin, the best of any company in any
field I was aware of.  The publications--which included all sorts of
data sheets, books, and booklets--probably peaked in the 1950s.  The
bureaucracy necessary to produce all that may have gotten out of hand.
Or a new executive may have failed to see the importance of those
publications to market share (you could hardly afford *not* to use
Kodak materials at that time, because no other line was supported by
anything like the wealth of information available for them).  Who
knows.  But by the late Sixties Kodak had changed radically.

One would hope that the advent of a mainstream (read E-6) IR
Ektachrome, plus the IR digital camera that has been mentioned here
(though it's hardly mainstream) would encourage them to do a new book
on IR or IR/UV photography.  But I ain't holdin' my breath.

Bob Long
(boblong@xxxxxxxxxxx)

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