However, I understand. It is a rapidly changing industry and some ot the things we took as granted are now considered obsolete.
The trickle-down? Enlargers will become even more a rarity... even though there will be people shooting black and white and printing on silver paper for a long time. They will be 'artists', hobbyists and the eccentric. Kodak isn't the only one making black and white paper, so some vendors will be picking up some more business.
I am totally digital in the printing end, even though I still shoot black and white 4x5 and 6x7. After processing I scan.
Sad to see an end of an era, especially one that I was so intimately involved in.
Kodak to Discontinue Black-and-White Paper: "ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Ending a century-old tradition, Eastman Kodak Co. will soon stop making black-and-white photographic paper, a niche product for fine-art photographers and hobbyists that is rapidly being supplanted by digital-imaging systems."
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Yeah, but Photo101 students in colleges the world around are running out of the darkroom right now, shouting "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we're free at last!" ;-)
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