Eclair Cameras: Kodak and the survival of 16mm

[Mark <super16acl@aol.com>]

Tell Kodak that you buy $800,000 - $1.5 million worth of stock a year!  I 
just tried to order some hi-con 7363 in Super-16, (ie-Single Perf), and they 
would not even special order it for me!  The only convenient way to shoot my 
credits in S-16 was to special order Plus-X Reversal (minimum 18 rolls in single 
perf); then process it as hi-con (D-97).

With 16mm, Kodak needs to follow IBM's lead after IBM blew their stranglehold 
on the PC market ---- set up a separate divison for 16mm and 8mm not 
answerable to the guys upstairs, so that an order worth $500 is meaningful-enough to 
that division to service it properly.  Kodak will doubtless allow 16mm to die 
faster than it otherwise would, simply because a product that may bring in many 
millions a year might not be considered "profitable-enough" by the definition 
of the big dinosaur Mother company. Kodak just layed off 10% of it's entire 
work force, after a similar layoff last year. That tells you something.  Mark.

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