P3D Re: No More Kodak 25?

["Greg Wageman" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Smart, Lattie MD06 <LSmart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Hmmmm...Get rid of the ultra-fine grain, 25 ASA print film? - CHECK!

The only print film I've found acceptable.  Of course!


>And...consider phasing-out archival, fine grain Kodachrome,
>once the flagship film product? - CHECK!


Uh huh.

>And...produce only high-speed, don't-give-a-crap, second-rate
>FUJI imitations and promote the less-than-full-frame APS
>films for lobotomy-and-shoot snaps of Aunt Mitilda and
>South of the Border, SC vacation? - DOUBLE-CHECK!!


Sure, cinch up those negatives!  Reduce the image area!  Add complicated
magnetic reader/writer hardware to the cameras!  ENCORE!!

>Yes, YES! Why didn't Kodak think of these money-saving steps
>before? It'll be the biggest thing since the Kodak Instant! Or the
>Disk camera. NO, make that the consumer photo CD machines!


Don't forget 127 rollfilm, the Instamatic cartridge and the 110
cartridge.  Obsolete a film format every few years so the public has to
buy a new camera periodically.  That's how to keep an industry alive!
NOT!

     -Greg W. (gjw@xxxxxxxxxx)



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