Response to VP to be discontinued

Big corporations like Eastman Kodak and Ilford must require a rather large minimum sales to make viable profit. As the market for b&w photo material shrinks, I speculate smaller companies will survive whereas I woudn't be surprised even if EKC drops all b&w line in 10 years as scientific/medical/industrial/military applications complete migration to digital. If they decide to keep one product for each category, it will probably be one T-grain film, developer like HC-110 or T-MAX RS, one RC paper, and so on. I hope Efke, Bergger, et al. keep good shape for many decades, and EKC/Ilford to keep at least some products on market, even if the worst happens to b&w photography.

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