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Re: Kodak White Paper on Image Stability

2005-10-12 by john dean

Kodak, integrity? Give me a break. I delt with their tech reps for
years about this issue of their Ektacolor paper fading. I saw
classmates of mine in undergraduate school produce outstanding work
that faded in no time. Kodak knew their dyes would shift badly.
Eventually when Fuji had  came up with a better solution and rather
than try to improve the stability of own their papers they just
resented Fuji and badmouthed their research. That is why they are
dying right now. George Eastmant would turn over in his grave. Their
answer was to claim to us that their color technology was stable, it
wasn't. Ask any portrait photographer from any decade. Kodak could
have made a better product they just didn't care about longevity,
never did. They had always owned the world. Well, they lost it.

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