Re: Eclair Cameras: I'm boycotting Kodak!

[Wade Ramsey <wramsey@bju.edu>]

Another conspiracy theory?  Lighten up, guys!  Why cut off your nose to spite your face?  Does Fuji have an equivalent to 7218?  That's what I'm shooting a lot of right now, and it's fantastic.  Cameras are tools.  I'm shooting with an SRII and an ACL1.  Aatons, SRs, ACLs, etc., all are good cameras and all can produce footage indistinguishable from one another's.  Use what works for you. :-)

Wade K. Ramsey, DP
Dept. of Cinema & Video Production
Bob Jones University
Greenville, SC 29614
> > > mwelle@starband.net 07/25/03 08:28 AM >>>
It seems pretty clear to me whats happening here:  Aaton is in bed with 
Kodak.  Aaton wants to corner the market.  Kodak wants to corner the 
market.  The ACL represents an affordable alternative to the Aaton 
A-Minima.  It also takes 200' core loads.  Kodak won't acknowledge that 
the ACL works with A-Minima loads.  Kodak is also propogating 
half-truths about the ACL in their description in order to promote 
limited sales of this camera.  What Kodak and Aaton are doing stinks!  
I, for one, will only be purchasing Fuji 16mm film until Kodak tells the 
full truth about the Eclair ACL on their website.  As far as Aaton goes, 
I think this quote from Elvis Costello pretty much sums up their 
position:

"Are you ready for the merger with the company you're part of,  
so you do the dirty business with your latest sleeping partner."

Michael Welle

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