I guess one could say that I have the same expectations concerning the Packard Motorcar Company as you do regarding Kodak. Why don't they make modern, very high quality luxury cars like they used to? They have an enormous 325,000 square foot factory in Detroit and it is still in place. It was a state-of-the art assembly line when it was built. Of course the windows are all smashed and it is a urban jungle, a cruel monument to man's and manufacturers' folly. But I want my high quality Packards and You Can Ask The Man Who Owns One about the quality.
Kodak is wherever the property tax is paid. That's in New York. We should all be so lucky to make as much money in a lifetime as the land under 1 film coater + property tax on said machine costs them up there in a year. The appetite for money is insatiable. They'll do what they have to or will be rusted.
Let's back off and let them make their film without our backbiting. Friendly fire is just as deadly as enemy fire. They might actually surprise us all by showing later on they know what they're doing. You folks in China may well get it after all some day.
Wow, this is going even better than I'd have expected from the subject and the OP.
[clicks "ignore thread" again]
These things are never a coincidence.
Most companies want their employees to use their own products. It's a way to show confidence in what they are making and selling.
To the contrary, if the employees don't use their own products, thats a massive vote of no confidence.
Infamously, the CEO of a certain online payment service threatened to fire any employee who used a different service.
It seems natural that the Kodak Photo Contest should be shot on film, or at least have a film category.
This contest is obviously designed to say "Ooo, look, we're digital now".
What bugs me even more is that the first photo is a HDR image, really putting their judgment into question.
I guess one could say that I have the same expectations concerning the Packard Motorcar Company as you do regarding Kodak. Why don't they make modern, very high quality luxury cars like they used to? They have an enormous 325,000 square foot factory in Detroit and it is still in place. It was a state-of-the art assembly line when it was built. Of course the windows are all smashed and it is a urban jungle, a cruel monument to man's and manufacturers' folly. But I want my high quality Packards and You Can Ask The Man Who Owns One about the quality.
I thought KA was a UK company?
Why do people think that still film is KA's most important and profitable analogue photography product?
Colour photographic paper is KA's most important and profitable analogue photography product.
I don't know why this thread even exist? All it is an another Kodak bashing thread. Analog photography is more that just about one company. That old saying, "if you can't say something nice, shut the F up" should apply. So depressing, so negative, so much same old same old.
Why do people think that still film is KA's most important and profitable analogue photography product?
Colour photographic paper is KA's most important and profitable analogue photography product.
I didn't bash them.
Well, where would society be without protest?
True. Is this protest or kicking them when they are down?
A large part of his thread consists of comments from individuals who in times past would be described as 'crepe hangers'. (People who are compulsive worriers, anxious about things that have not yet happened - see:http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crepe hanger&defid=124878 )
Maybe APUG needs a new 'Crepe Hanger' Forum to accommodate such people.
Really, this whole thread comes under the category of "Would it Really Hurt Kodak Alaris to Say Something Nice About Film?"
For the obvious reasons, we here feel that it would not hurt them and in fact would only help. But, KA obviously thinks that it will hurt them or they already would have done so. They aren't going to say anything nice about film and, I guess, the only commitment you will see out of KA to the analog community is that they still bother to make film, which is after all, the only commitment that actually matters.
If you don't care for their business model/feelings/practices then the best thing you can do is vote with your wallet and move on to other products. KA has not had any problems having a recent round of price increases so you should not feel bad about doing what you need to do either! Turn about is fair play.
And, for the record, I don't care if it is the distributor cranking up prices on the retailer, the retailers themselves or KA doing it. A price increase is a price increase. KA is not the only game in color film and there are other high quality b/w products. Competition is still alive. A vote with your wallet still has a point to make.
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