----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Spirer" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 11:31 AM Subject: Re: Canon digital bodies and Nikon lenses. : At 07:10 PM 11/9/2005, karl shah-jenner wrote: : >You DO know that the biggest increase in photo sales worldwide has been in : >RA4 paper.. all the mums and dads are using it for frontier prints having : >tossed their inkjets after the initial inks ran dry : : You must have a reference for this fact. that news article's gone. One of the pre-'convert to pdf any articles you want to keep' days I'm afraid. it was hung off an article where Kodak claimed the Melbourne based Colburg plant was to close due to downturn in the conventional film/paper area, and a journo did an expose on the lies Kodak was spouting - the fact that the government here subsidised them heavily and they were restructured on an almost weekly basis to push production levels to the highest levels in the kodak empire, with the highest QC and with a free hand at treating employees however they wished.. They also revealed that paper sales had skyrocketted and this was both unexpected due to digital, yet was because of the uptake of digital and the need consumers had to get their images out. it was concluded that the worldwide factory closures would be deemed more palitable if 'market forces' and digital could be blamed for the closures, thus allowing Kodak a free hand to move the entire production out of the various first world contries and into China. Sheigh of hand and a few well placed lies like this : http://wwwau.kodak.com/AU/en/motion/capture.shtml, a dip in their shares for a bit before a pleasant rise for the shareholders and the legacy is that we're all still of the belief that poor kodak took a beating because of digital. Even our electronics stores here now have frontier labs beside their kettles and mp3 players.. they're doing fine k
