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    Re: Kodak Merger Announced

    The saddest bit is.... it would be an improvement based on previous AT&T mergers....
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    Re: Fuji lauch 'choose-film' website

    Very smart idea. It's what Kodak should have done... 10 years ago.
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    Re: German customs - I was taxed ...

    Just wait till the US adopts a similar system in the next few years. The income tax cuts have made it all but a certainty.
  4. Thread: Kodak News

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    Re: Kodak News

    Kodak's best approach would have been to re-define the fight entirely. The core issue is similar to that faced by passenger trains back in the 1940's and 1950's. The companies kept going "We're in...
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    Re: Is stitching the future of photography?

    By my calcs, you'd need to shoot over 400 images with a Canon 5D to come close to matching the size of a LF frame. You want to set up over 400 times, calculating perfectly the size and angle from...
  6. Thread: Kodak News

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    Re: Kodak News

    Sustaining the film industry is not hard. First step is the most critical however:

    ADVERTISE THAT YOU MAKE FILM!

    I sell cameras for a living. First thing out of a lot of peoples mouth is...
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    Re: Ball Bearing Shutter

    I don't care about accuracy, as I use it on B setting almost exclusively.
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    Re: Ball Bearing Shutter

    Ok, determined it uses 1/16" bearings. I hope this is all that's needed to get this working, but if not, no biggie, as the shutter seems a pretty simple design.
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    Ball Bearing Shutter

    I recently aquired an old Kodak ball bearing shutter w/ lens (incredibly sharp lens I found) but the bearings in it are worn out. I cannot find, however, what size it used, and the original bearings...
  10. Thread: weddings

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    Re: weddings

    For fun, a friend of mine is getting married, and was not planning on any pictures at all. So, I offered to take a short movie of her service and to do some posed pictures for her, as my wedding...
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    Should actually introduce myself...

    Been posting here for a few weeks (not regularly, just an on and off thing) then thought I should actually talk about myself.

    Hi! I'm Nate Downes, a salesman working for a national camera chain. ...
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    Re: The Kodak moment

    Kodak has 1 obligation above all others, the golden commandment above all for any public corporation:

    Thou shalt turn a profit

    Kodak feels that they are best serving their stockholders by going...
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    Re: Commissionned new lenses, foolish ?

    Well, has he done anything, such as develop a design for it yet? If not... if he'd like help on that front, just ask. I have a problem solving mind (work in cinema, trust me you develop one...
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    Re: The system works.... almost.

    New Hampshire.

    But getting back on subject, taxes are a necessary evil. My feeling is that you'll be paying for it in either case, might as well be up front about it.

    My own shipping story,...
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    Re: Most pathetic EBay purchase

    An arcade control spinner, but the guy forgot to mention that it was just the counter-weight. I spent $20 for a 45oz piece of lead.
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    Re: Kodak - Winds of Change

    The truth is, Kodak's biggest mistake was not in their rate of acceptance of digital camera, but in failing to keep up with the rapid pace of digital photography. 2006 prooved that the strongest,...
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    Re: funerals, graveyards, etc

    A friend of mine does just this. It's a facinating business, and people do, infact, pay for it.
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    Re: If you could break one bad habit....

    For me, it's procrastinating and not actually *shooting* anything! I spend more time tinkering with my cameras, trying to find a better camera, than I do actually out and about shooting with any...
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    Re: Trying desperately to locate a film holder

    thus far only determined that there was no set film size holder for this camera. It might be a custom film holder for a standard film, which means that either I need an absolute stroke of luck and...
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    Re: Trying desperately to locate a film holder

    Not quite a door, more like a slot which you slide the holder down into. And APUG?
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    Re: Trying desperately to locate a film holder

    No ridge. It has a pair of slide-clamps that look like they slide over the holder, but none of the holders I've found are *quite* narrow enough to slide down far enough into the camera body. ...
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    Trying desperately to locate a film holder

    I have located an unidentified camera sporting a Seneca Uno shutter and Wollensak lens. I bought some 4x5 film holders, as the slot for the film holder is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 in size, only to find that...
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