Mirko,
I do agree with you completely. And, as I said, Ilford will go on. They are "under administration" and will keep on doing their business. No bankruptcy.
Their venture capitalist wanted his return-on-investment and didn't got it. So, he decided to install a business administrator. Same as it works in Germany. The company shrinks down to "dogs" and "cash cows" and will survive. Investments will get depreciated. That's life. Sorry for the employees.
We shall not compare Kodak's strange business plans with Ilford. Kodak does suicide (selling films and closing labs suitable for digital processing the same time), Ilford has to manage business problems.
Kodak plans have been solved here: My photographer in my hometown just bought a Frontier from Fuji. They do 130 films a day. Since they started with that business I use C41 again and get very good prints from there. Even Ilford-XP2 gets printed in real BW by them. (Well, I do it better in my darkroom, but it takes much more time.)
At the moment I do not see any facts for stopping darkroom work. Ilford is alive, Agfa is alive, Foma/Efke will take profit.
(Please keep Efke from stopping my favourite R50! The only thing I buy from them.)
Just my five cents.
Franz
p.s.: @Niall: I got your mails. But I haven't had the time to answer. Will do it in the next days.
I do agree with you completely. And, as I said, Ilford will go on. They are "under administration" and will keep on doing their business. No bankruptcy.
Their venture capitalist wanted his return-on-investment and didn't got it. So, he decided to install a business administrator. Same as it works in Germany. The company shrinks down to "dogs" and "cash cows" and will survive. Investments will get depreciated. That's life. Sorry for the employees.
We shall not compare Kodak's strange business plans with Ilford. Kodak does suicide (selling films and closing labs suitable for digital processing the same time), Ilford has to manage business problems.
Kodak plans have been solved here: My photographer in my hometown just bought a Frontier from Fuji. They do 130 films a day. Since they started with that business I use C41 again and get very good prints from there. Even Ilford-XP2 gets printed in real BW by them. (Well, I do it better in my darkroom, but it takes much more time.)
At the moment I do not see any facts for stopping darkroom work. Ilford is alive, Agfa is alive, Foma/Efke will take profit.
(Please keep Efke from stopping my favourite R50! The only thing I buy from them.)
Just my five cents.
Franz
p.s.: @Niall: I got your mails. But I haven't had the time to answer. Will do it in the next days.
