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Mike. All of my posts are commercials, when it comes right down to it. Though I fail to see how you and conan see that this is an AD. I was simply making a sound reply to a post. This is what I bring to the photographic table, like it or not. This would be the case for dozens of other posters on this forum, I wont name them.
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 Originally Posted by mikebarger  Cheryl
I don't know...
First, I don't have a dog in this fight...never ever used TXP...only use 220 color for family snaps.
I went back and looked at your posts and see a small business person concerned about the impact this decision is having on your business. Honest concern as to how it is going to affect your livelihood. I don't see any claims about you being the best at your profession.
I can also see David is concerned and upset about the decision, the impact on his livelihood, but I also see the plugging of a business mixed in the post.
I don't give a hoot if it's there or not (heck I don't even know what a DR5 is), but looks to me like there is a commercial there.
With not disrespect.
Mike
Mike
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I could have spell checked that a little better.
Hope I didn't come across as saying you shouldn't promote your business. I just think Cheryl's style is a little more discrete, not as bold. Did I say I'm a blue's and jazz guy, not hard rock? 
Mike
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I don't use that film. I recently read a business/political article about how failing countries and corporations go to great lengths to hide debt and have no real plans to pay it back. Sound familiar? Of course, the US was high on the list and that was the main focus. But on the short list of companies that made the cut, I noticed Kodak. If they are a bunch of morons then they will inevitably screw up. But I suspect that they are simply desperate.
Over the past 10 years, their share price has gone from $60 per share to $6 per share. How many of us could afford that? Kodak's debt to equity ratio is 66. Yikes. I would be throwing a lot overboard if my life were in that condition. For FY 2009 they had sales of 7.6 billion dollars. So they must be rich. Only they lost 233 million dollars. That is a quarter billion dollar loss in one year. In the end, Kodak can't run themselves like our government (or at least for not as long). They must be responsible or extinct. I use a lot of Kodak products and wish that it made sense for Kodak to sell off its analog business. I don't know who would buy it or what it would cost. Maybe all of these keen business people on APUG could chip in.
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It would be nice if Ilford would buy their film division and offer both lines.
2F/2F
"Truth and love are my law and worship. Form and conscience are my manifestation and guide. Nature and peace are my shelter and companions. Order is my attitude. Beauty and perfection are my attack."
- Rob Tyner (1944 - 1991)
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Originally Posted by Cheryl Jacobs The biggest pain factor is that whatever I go to will have to be 120. I resent that.
I just can't believe that there is no other 220 B&W option. Unbelievable. As much as it's frustrating to be forced to change, there are certainly ways to use 120 film in professional situations and I am sure that you will be able to adapt. It certainly sucks that you have the double-whammy of losing your favorite film and the only 220 b&w film available. Good luck and let us know how it shakes out.
Tim
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Originally Posted by 2F/2F I have always had a hard time finding TX in 120, not TXP. The only walk-in store in which I have ever seen TX in 120 is Freestyle. Everywhere else, when you say "120 Tri-X", it is assumed you mean TXP, and the TX is not even stocked. My experience, too. They don't even ask which one.
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I must say dr5 certainly came up with a good thread title.
I like big boobs; just not on corporations.
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Originally Posted by jeroldharter Over the past 10 years, their share price has gone from $60 per share to $6 per share... Kodak's debt to equity ratio is 66... For FY 2009 they had sales of 7.6 billion dollars... Only they lost 233 million dollars. That is a quarter billion dollar loss in one year. Ironic, isn't it?
Wasn't the above nightmarish scenario precisely what they had hoped to avoid by decisively making the switch from analog to digital? By letting their former competitors become the last man (men) standing and drinking the ceremonial glass of cognac? By convincing me and everyone else to buy an Easyshare? Or cheap ink?
I wonder what went wrong??
Ken
"If we stand idly by, if we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then the bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world."
-- Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900)
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Originally Posted by Ken Nadvornick Ironic, isn't it?
Wasn't the above nightmarish scenario precisely what they had hoped to avoid by decisively making the switch from analog to digital? By letting their former competitors become the last man (men) standing and drinking the ceremonial glass of cognac? By convincing me and everyone else to buy an Easyshare? Or cheap ink?
I wonder what went wrong??
Ken The biggest fall the hardest. But I cling to my TMY-2 and Xtol.
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Hey, it’s funny, that some complain that a huge company is not as flexible as they are, and then complain that they cannot change or find a flexible solution because they are small. Which is it?
Small companies and entrepreneurs have a big advantage in that they can turn on a dime. Big companies just cannot do that. So, it’s a problem for both. But every problem has new opportunities. Some things you cannot do anything about, like this economy. Those who adapt will succeed.
Frankly, I would rather have the problem of finding a work around of no longer having 220 than the problems Kodak is facing.
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