Re: [APML] Of interest to Tech Pan users

["Bobby Middleton" <bobm@koyote.com>]

Anybody have a confirmation on this? Perhaps it will be Monday before we can
check?
Bobby Middleton

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Packard" <packardc@hiwaay.net>
To: "Discussion of Film Astrophotography" <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 3:01 AM
Subject: [APML] Of interest to Tech Pan users


> I picked this up off the Kodachrome mailing list. I'll visit my local
> store tomorrow and see if they've received any news from Kodak.
> Charles Packard
>
> There is a thread over on photo.net at the moment on Technical Pan film
> being discontinued, but the person states the fax they received from
> Kodak also states that Kodachrome 64 and 200 is also being
> discontinued!  B&H and Adorama have plenty of stock!  IF this is true,
> and I'll believe it when I see the Kodak Press Release posted on
> Kodak.Com, I'll buy some just to have a supply for the near future.
> Kindly please wait until I order all I want Sunday morning before you
> order yours!
>
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> While at the counter of my local camera store, buying some darkroom
> paper, the female clerk whom I've know for years showed me a fax she had
> just gotten from Kodak which clearly stated they are discontinuing both
> Tech Pan and Kodachrome slide film. I'd like to immerse the CEO of Kodak
> and Kodak's shareholders in a tub of boiling acetic acid or stain them
> with a heavy dose of Pyro from head to toes for screwing up the company
> so much. I've yet to read a very positive analysis/review of Kodak's
> digital camera releases, yet the CEO thinks sales of digital cameras
> will rescue Kodak. What a jerk!
>
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> What I'm asking is "has anyone heard anything other than the rumor of a
> fax being sent by Kodak earlier today?"    Has anyone on this list seen
> the fax, received the fax or have any other information?  I can check
> locally when stores open Saturday morning, but they don't carry any
> Kodachrome except for movie film.
>
> I'll also e-mail my contact at B&H and ask, but they are closed for the
> Sabbath.
> Robert Johnson
>
> PS  Anyone know of a florist that carries BLACK roses in Rochester.  If
> true, a dozen should be in order for Dan Carp!
>
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