just watching the stock slide and slide.... .42 cents down from nearly 100 not too many years ago.....it seems very possible another great name from the Photographic past may just 'fade away'.

I feel bad I didnt help more. yes, I had them spool out 2000 feet of 16mm film for me, double perf it...at about $450 ....but no, no film purchases, I suppose 35mm is now totally dead in the water, for all practical purposes. Cameras...do they even Make cameras in the US anymore? or just branded imports? The copiers that seemed like a great idea but now I never see them advertised anymore (lack of $$>?).

Everything we seem to hold dear as old friends just seems slip away in time. Things familiar to us, things we bought and used for decades...gone. The passage of time is a brutal whip to us who disdain change. It slaps us with a cold reality, when all we can do is silently watch it happen. Now, they are going to take books away from us. They took our paper snapshots, those little 3X5 prints, old memories, mom dad, baby photos, pets long gone...our little treasures from the past we spend hours with..now, they are to be gone too. those pictures on the hard drive...in 20 years....really, where will they be? gone. so sad. they took our film, they took our prints, the took our friendly handwritten usps letters, they took free tv, they are now taking our magazines and books.

god dammit I hate this stupid century. I want to wake up some morning and find this is ALL a bad dream and Im home and comfy in bed and its 1923.

I don't think they'll totally disappear... They're getting ready to file for Chapter 11 in case their patent sales don't work out they way they are hoping...But it doesn't look good. I plan on stocking up on some film and developer next month.

I for one think that the company is failing because they have gotten so far away from their core products. When I think "Kodak" I think of loading a roll of film into my camera. Their current focus is on inkjet printers and point-and-shoot cameras, and if anyone here is like me, the last time I made an inkjet print was 5 years ago. If I want a good print of a photo, I send it to a lab to get printed on real photo paper. With a good 8MP digital camera in most phones these days, the point-and-shoot will be a thing of the past as well...Why carry around 2 devices?

But film... Thanks to hipsters and the lomography trend, it's still got a hold on people. Sounds to me like their upper management needs to change focus, and they need to divest of a large part of their business... Focus on some core products to do better than anybody else and get rid of the rest, much the way Steve Jobs did when he returned to Apple.

looks like ol workhorse, will outlive tri-x

after apx 25 then apx 100 then kodak bw paper, got taken away forever.
I walked away from film
I never looked back.
I made my peace with the death of film when I started wet plate.
now I make my own film
5 pounds of silver nitrate and john coffers doers guide and
I don't need to watch the news, to see if I can still take a picture.



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Looks like Kodak will survive a bit longer

Can't say that about Hostess who makes Twinkies....lol

Todd Harrington
Winchester, VA

www.collodianartistry.com

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/27/2012 03:55PM by Richard Mellor.