RE: Levels & Curves (Wilhelm)

["LAURIE SOLOMON" <LAURIE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Studios lost lots of money on remakes of rapidly fading and discoloring
>prints, not to mention all the goodwill they lost.

If my memory serves me accurately, it was not just the prints that were
fading but the dyes or dye couplers used in the negatives were also fading
so that the studios often could not even make reprints.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-scan@leben.com [mailto:owner-scan@leben.com]On Behalf Of
byard pidgeon
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 12:20 AM
To: scan@leben.com
Subject: Re: Levels & Curves (Wilhelm)


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.



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