Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think I need to clarify some of this.:
>When I was in Rochester last weekend I checked in with my friends who >work at Kodak. The ones who work in the division that makes imaging >chips seemed fairly optimistic but everyone else was absolutely gloomy. First thing I did last Saturday was get up to go running with my old marathon training buddies. This is a large group that started (25 years ago) at Kodak and Kodak employees still make up a large percentage of the group. (Ex-Kodak employees are present in significant numbers, too.) A couple of my friends work in the imaging sensor division, the rest are scattered throughout the company. One just retired after spending his whole career in Kodak's HR department. He seemed very relieved to be out of Kodak. The CCD guys were very excited about the 18 megapixel chip that's going into the Pentax 645 Digital, but let's face it, this isn't going to sell in very big numbers no matter how nice it is. >I know a chemist who works on inkjet papers and related stuff and he >didn't seem optimistic about the way things were going at all. I met my chemist friend later in the day. (He's working part-time at shop that sells running shoes & stuff - I don't think he's desperate for money, but he likes hanging out with and helping other runners.) He used to do research on color negative film, but that group was disbanded a few years ago. I get the impression there isn't much, if any, research being done on color neg film these days. I'm going back up to Rochester in October. I'm going to try to meet with some people at RIT. It'll be interesting to hear their point of view on things. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
