Re: HIE in D76

[George L Smyth <glsmyth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 26 May 1999, Clive Warren wrote:

> At 9:04 am -0400 25/5/99, Ray.Hale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> By the way, heard some rather depressing and hopefully innacurate news for
> anyone using B/W film this morning on the BBC Radio4 news programme from
> Eamon McCabe - picture editor of the Guardian broad sheet newspaper.  We
> all know that the newspapers closed down their darkrooms some time ago and
> have moved to digital - Eamon told us this morning that the intention of
> the major film producers is to gradually cease manufacturing B/W film as
> there is not enough demand.......

I wouldn't worry too much about this.  I believe that this is the last
year that Kodak will be supplying film for the ill-fated disk cameras
(remember those crummy things?).  If they have supported that for so long,
I would imagine that they will be supporting silver gelatin for quite some
time in the future.

george

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