No that will be the end for Kodak film. Film was profitable at lower
volumes in the past, it will be again, however you can't run a factory
designed to produce 5 billion square feet of a product a week, (just for
example, I don't know the actual numbers), when demand is 5 thousand
square feet a week. You can however run a factory designed for 5
thousand feet a week profitably. That varies from product to product
however, some machines can be mothballed until you need them quite
nicely. A film plant, probably not. The biggest problem is
distribution, and the internet seems to be designed for niche products.
On 6/13/2013 9:51 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:
John Sessoms wrote:
From: Mark Roberts
There's a bit of panic going around the web as Kodak has announced
they're going to cease manufacture of acetate film base. They're not
stopping FILM production, they're just no longer manufacturing their
own acetate to make it with.
That's kind of ironic, because I thought Kodak had stopped making film a
year or so back.
They stopped production of all slide film about a year and a half ago.
Now it's just B&W negative and color negative film. The motion picture
industry is all that's keeping the production lines running enough to
be profitable now. When movies go all digital that'll probably be the
end for film.
--
There are two kinds of computer users those who've experienced a hard drive
failure, and those that will.
--
PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List
[email protected]
http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow
the directions.
