Response to RIP Kodak B&W Films

Hi, guys. Don't get so upset about all that "product" business. Try to make good pictures, with the films that are available. I don't like the policy of companies like Mc Kodak's either, ignoring the historical importance of certain photographic processes (like Kodachrome, or Dye Transfer) and discontinuing the products that are necessary to keep them alive. But I think that there is really nothing we can do to change that, since there are so few of us, comparing to the public those big companies need to keep them alive. Think of them as a kind of business dinosaurs, bound to be extinct just because they are too big. I will agree with John Elder, that the best thing for us to do is to support smaller companies that target the B+W market so that they shall have the economic power to develop and market more products. If we all give our money to Bergger, Foma, Efke, Forte etc, maybe someday one of them will start again manufacturing films for copy work or Infrared sheet film or other nice things that we like to have around. Kodak shall never again bother with this kind of things, whatever we do (or do not do).

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