Come on, George, nothing you've ever posted about digital photography bears any relationship to "facts."
Read everything I've said: I said it doesn't matter whether they are different divisions, different companies, dance partners, or animal breeders - what matters is the cost of the film. If one makes it and the other tries to sell it at such a high price no one buys it, the first won't be making it...
Try reading what others wrote. The price alone of
anything is irrelevant with respect to its continued manufacture. Your assumption that
no one will purchase Kodak film as its price continues to escalate simply because you find it too expensive is baseless. The market has spoken and continues to speak. Neither you nor anyone else at PHOTRIO is representative of the film consumer market in 2021.
...You clearly don't know what hate is when you think a rational discussion is hate-spewing. Go eat a sandwich or something...
There's nothing rational about projecting a few posters' hate for Kodak film price increases on the market as a whole. It's not clear why you're concerned about my nutrition, but I'm going to skip the sandwich and have a plate of Cellentani olio with grated parmesan soon after posting this reply.
...I can't put a digital image in a negative holder. I use film to make prints. If I didn't make prints, I would not use film.
Prints can be readily made at home from digital files using any number of inkjet printers. No film necessary.
It seems like a good point as it would seem that EK's future is tied to KA's future...
As I remind readers from time to time, unless someone has insider information and is likely violating an NDA, it's not a good point at all. Given the roles each company plays in the still film market, and that EK is involved in other things besides still film while what's left of KA doesn't appear to be, just the opposite seems probable.
...I thought Matt King hinted at the sort of relationship between the two that suggests EK has a say in KA pricing but I may be wrong...
Who knows and who cares? What's absolutely certain is that whatever costs of manufacture drive EK's wholesale film prices to KA, KA sure can't sell for less than those wholesale prices.
...I may be wrong. If I am and KA is autonomous in terms of pricing then it does suggest that had there never been a need to establish a KA then the pricing policy we see might be different...
How many times can the history of EK's bankruptcy / KA's founding be gone over in detail before speculation about a "need" to establish KA ends? Amazing!
...the pricing policy we see might be different. Whether it would benefit the consumer to a greater extent is probably impossible to prove
In this fantasy world where there was no "need" to establish KA, what kind of pricing policy could exist that would benefit film consumers? There's no pricing policy for any good or service intended to "benefit consumers." All for-profit corporations are machines designed to earn money, and for no other reason.
Kodak-hating whiners: please, quityurbellyachin. Pony up and buy the stuff. Don't purchase any and use instead use other film. Or go digital. None of your complaints will affect the price of Kodak film by even one tenth of one cent per roll/sheet.