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     Cooltouch Tinkerer Username: Cooltouch Post Number: 200 Registered: 01-2009 Rating: N/A |
Honestly, the only product of Kodak's I consistently used over the years was Kodachrome. More recently, Ektar, D-76 and Tri-X, but I've always been a color slide guy. So if Kodak disappears, yeah, I'll miss it, mostly because I'll have to scrounge around for B&W emulsions and developer that I like as much as what I'm using now. So, much of Kodak's marketing strategy the past 10+ years has largely been into areas that I have little, if any, interest in. Well, interest in Kodak-branded products, at least. I have never associated Kodak's name with quality durable photo gear until I picked up a minty Retina IIa about 20 years ago. And I was asking myself even back then, where did Kodak go wrong? Because my earliest memory of Kodak cameras is the camera I was given by my parents when I was like 10yo -- some godawful piece of crap Hawkeye that took 126 film or some such. Unfortunately, from the early 60s until the present, Kodak has concentrated way too much on producing and/or marketing items that I just don't consider to be "quality." So, in a big way, the way I see it, they've dug the pit they find themselves in today. |