Digital BW, The Print

Diane Fields writes:

> And---plants have to be kept open to make film--Kodak, for
> instance, has closed a number of their plants.

Kodak is probably the industry's best example of how _not_ to run a
photography company.  Every time they come up with a real potential
money-maker, they kill it; and they pour zillions of dollars into
technologies that are doomed to go nowhere (anyone still using a Kodak
Disc camera?).

> They are in the process of opening a plant almost totally specific for
> their printer docks for consumer digital cameras.

A lot of companies are banking on home printing to make the money they
lose by abandoning film, but they are going to be disappointed.

A lot of companies are going to find that they've exchanged the small
but steady and unlimited income of film photography for the irregular
and finite income of selling digital cameras.  They are going to be
disappointed, too.