Re: Levels & Curves (Wilhelm)

[byard pidgeon <bluedove@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kodak wasn't just "accused"...they were guilty. I don't remember the
disposition of it all, but the gist is that Kodak assured professional
studio types (wedding/portrait mostly) that their new materials had "Better"
longevity than the previous, widely used print materials, when in actuality
the new materials were much worse.
Studios lost lots of money on remakes of rapidly fading and discoloring
prints, not to mention all the goodwill they lost.
A class action suit was planned...don't remember if it was actually pursued
or if settled out of court or what...but however it was settled, Kodak
behaved abominably throughout the entire affair.

It wasn't simply a matter of Kodak being overly optimistic...Kodak was
untruthful, and stonewalled when confronted with the truth, and with the
very great financial and reputational problems incurred by photographers who
had trusted Kodak.

Not exactly a glorious moment in public relations.

So, whatever one thinks of Wilhelm and whatever he's done lately, he was
right about Kodak.


on 12/27/2001 03:19 PM, Kennedy McEwen at rkm@kennedym.demon.co.uk wrote:

> In article <3C2B12AE.9010807@ampsc.com>, Arthur Entlich
> <artistic@ampsc.com> writes
>> 
>> Why so harsh on the guy?
>> 
> Wilhelm made his reputation as the guy who accused Kodak of using an
> optimistic test methodology for measuring the longevity of their print
> and film materials.
> 
> This is the same guy who used an extremely optimistic methodology to
> measure the longevity of Epson's long-life inks that were promised to
> give us "inkjet prints that could be handled like normal photographs".
> 
> Does he have an apology for misleading the public (in the same way as he
> accused Kodak of doing so many years ago) on his revamped website?  Does
> he apologise for making the same mistake as he found Big Yellow doing?
> Does he thank any of the many individuals who worked to try to resolve
> the cause of the problem that he had ignored?
> 
> Somehow, I think I can guess the answer to all of these questions before
> I visit his new pages, but I might be wrong.

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