RE: Re: HIE in 120/220

[Stan McQueen <stan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:58 AM 03/04/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>The sad truth is that Kodak is run like an other American business. It's 
>not at all about profit; it is about HOW MUCH profit. CEO's are constantly 
>trying to make more and more money each year for the stockholders. Why 
>else would companies continue to cut jobs when the U.S. is supposedly in 
>"The longest run of economic prosperity in history". Most likely Kodak is 
>discontinuing 4x5 HSI simply because it is not making ENOUGH of a profit. 
>If it was making no profit, it would have been dropped long ago. It's 
>likely that the same reasoning applies to 120/220 HIE. Not that many 
>people have medium format cameras to make it profitable enough for them to 
>bother.
>         I have no doubt that when the "Profit Margin" for 35mm HIE drops 
> below a certain number arrived at by some genius bean counter, it will be 
> dumped by Kodak too. Best thing to insure it's continued availability is 
> to keep buying it and shooting it! Or else find a good substitute from a 
> less greedy film company.
>
>Adrian

Very simplistic analysis: Companies that do not make profits soon go out of 
business and no longer make any products at all. Companies that do not make 
enough profit lose ground to companies that do and eventually go out of 
business and then make no products at all. Rather than criticizing Kodak 
for making a profit, we should be cheering them on to make as much profit 
as they can so we can go on enjoying the use of our favorite film.

Stan

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