MovieStuff wrote:matt5791 wrote:"....Remember, they went ahead with a t-grain 400 speed Kodachrome that was never sold due to customer apathy...."
Because Kodak waited about 20 years too long to offer it. I remember working photo retail just out of high school in the mid 70's and all the pro photographers I knew would have given a knuckle to have high speed Kodachrome or medium format Kodachrome but the word we kept getting from Kodak was "there's no demand for it". The marketing people at Kodak just seemed to be out of synch with its constituency. Sometimes it seems like they still are.
your response contains a number of logical fallacies and muddied thinking.
Because Kodak waited about 20 years too long to offer it.
This presumes that Kodak, a market dependent, research-orientated film manufacturer, "waits" to offer new improved products. It also presumes that they will willingly wait for two decades and sit on superior products they have already developed.
Please offer proof and examples of this happening to support your assertion.
I remember working photo retail just out of high school in the mid 70's and all the pro photographers I knew would have given a knuckle to have high speed Kodachrome or medium format Kodachrome but the word we kept getting from Kodak was "there's no demand for it".
Kodak did not introduce T-grain negative technology until 1982 with VR 1000, after which the other T-grain films followed. No doubt there was perhaps no demand for grainy 400 speed conventional Kodachrome in the mid 1970's when you claim to have experienced this. For this is all that could have been available to offer by Kodak at the time.
The marketing people at Kodak just seemed to be out of synch with its constituency. Sometimes it seems like they still are.
You assume, illogically, that the marketing people had 400 speed T-grain film to market and were therefore out of synch with their market. They did not, and were not, in the 1970's. Kodak's business was booming in that era.
You assume, illogically, that there is some connection beween your fallacious argument that Kodak's marketing people of the 1970's were out of touch with their customers because they were not selling film material which did not exist, and Kodak's current marketing people some 30 years after. Quite likely, all would be retired, and the conditions and market place are in no way remotely similar. No legitimate connection can be made to claim that the marketing department of today is "out of touch" because the marketing department of 30 years ago was not demonstrably out of touch, as they could not sell material which did not exist.
