MirkoBoeddecker
...so anyone who’s been waiting for Fomapan 400 and Fomaspeed Variant 24x30, glossy, is welcome to pop round straight away and threaten us with orders :-)
Mirko
CORRECTION (21 Oct 2005): The Fomarians haven’t delivered any Fomapan 400 again, but have sent everything to the USA. Scoundrels!
But unfortunately there’s nothing we can do about it. Without Agfa, there’s currently a huge gap in the market.
Turapan has also completely run out and isn’t being restocked.
At the moment, the only option left is ADOX CHM 400. Thanks to our own stock, consistent availability is guaranteed.
Gast
Hi Mirko,
And what about the Fomabrom (30x40 cm) – has that arrived yet?
Best wishes from Johannes.
PhilippeGrunchec
And what about the Chamois 542?
MirkoBoeddecker
You’d have to ask the girls about that.
I don’t have all the details to hand.
I only remember the two biggest ‘problem children’: the 24x30 glossy Variant and the Fomapan 400 KB.
Even I’ve noticed that...
Best regards,
Mirko
cfb_de
Mirko,
You’re slowly turning into a really, really nasty big-business capitalist. You might well start exploiting your workers next year and just rake in the millions.
Well, I’ll be... The boss doesn’t even know what’s just been delivered... Perhaps the locust/boss will have to become omnipresent in future... Well then, he might as well run the whole shop on his own and do without every single employee. And we’ll just order online via an automated ERP system. Where on earth is the practical Java tool we need for that?
Sheep, unpack the right stuff!
Or something like that.
;-)
Franz
FrankJBeckmann
Hi Franz,
There’s one thing you’ve overlooked, though: the boss definitely doesn’t look that hot^H^H^Hgood in those tight T-shirts...
Bye
Frank
MirkoBoeddecker
We complained so much about the film formats that they nicked 300 rolls of Fomapan 400 from their domestic stock and sent them to us by post.
So if you’re completely out of film, pop into the shop first thing on Monday.
New stock won’t arrive for another 3–4 weeks.
Mirko
Gast
Great!
It’s just like in the good old GDR – so on Monday we’ll be queuing up for black-and-white film.
Is there actually an award for the comrade shop manager, given that he has succeeded, with great efficiency, in making the top-quality products of the Czechoslovakian workers available to Berlin’s photographic trade—for the benefit of the capital’s working people—thanks to his colleague, the manager of VEB Fotochema Brno?
Regards
MirkoBoeddecker
Hello Nörgler,
Unfortunately, there’s no such thing as Nadine. But I’ll make a note of it in my Rationalisator’s Pass and claim the innovator’s bonus from the fund :-)
But it’s always been Fotochema Hradek Kralove.
Neobrom, Brno has also been part of it for 30 years.
It’s not our fault that Agfa suddenly kicked the bucket without warning :-(
First Agfapan ran out, then Turapan, and then Fomapan.
There’s currently a short-term shortage on the market.
ADOX CHM is available. We have around 70,000 films available at short notice.
Admittedly, though, we’re lagging a bit behind on the Fomapan.
Loyalty to the socialist enterprise is loyalty to the power of the workers and peasants!
Mirko
Gast
Hello!
Since you’re all chatting away so merrily!
Here is the previously confidential report for ADN (for use in the AK, the ND, and Radio DDR)
[font="Arial"]VEB FOTOIMPEX – a company renowned for its excellent quality work, providing outstanding services to the working people of the capital and other districts
[font="Times"][font="Times"]Berlin, capital of the GDR,
from the hands of Günter Schabowski, member of the Politburo and Secretary of the Central Committee of the SED, First Secretary of the Berlin District Leadership, the entire collective of VEB FOTOIMPEX received the Heroes of Labour in Gold award.
The workers, under the leadership of Mirko Bädecker, are making a significant contribution to the vigorous struggle to supply the population with Panchromatic negative film.
This made it possible to make 300 highly sensitive panchromatic films of the Fomapan 27 type—which enjoy the highest international renown—produced by VEB Fotochema of the Czechoslovak photochemical industry, available to domestic photography enthusiasts through genuine internationalist-socialist cooperation.
This ensured a successful and abundant supply of film material.
It is evident that the tried-and-tested course of unity between economic and social policy, implemented through the intensive study of the materials and plans of the 15th Party Congress of the Central Committee of the SED, is proving effective here too in all areas.
The situation is different in the capitalist countries, for example at Kodak and Agfa, which have been driven to the brink of ruin by a monopoly-capitalist system; one should shed no tears for them.
Gast
Hello,
Have I just missed a coup?
Roland
Gast
Did people really speak like that in the GDR, or is that an exaggeration? Surely no one can read a newspaper like that.
Size
Markus
RomanJRohleder
Markus,
That’s just how people spoke back then.
I was only eight at the time, so I was quite small, but I did everything I could to outwit the border guards. Pretending to be asleep (sitting on magazines) when crossing the border, smuggling in printed material (my children’s encyclopaedia from Bertelsmann Verlag!)… that’s just how people spoke.
To get a feel for it, I recommend the repeats of “Aktuelle Kamera” (occasionally on Bayern Alpha and on Mittelpächter Rundfunk), a subscription to Neues Deutschland (now wholly owned by the oh-so-fresh Left Party), and for a humorous rounding off, an on-topic article from 2005 will suffice: namely the “Rote Fahne” from North Rhine-Westphalia. Funnily enough, despite a regrettable subject, the “Karl-Heinz Kunkel Voters’ Initiative” comments on the events at Agfaphoto.
<http://www.rf-news.de/rfnews/aktuell/Betrieb_und_Gewerkschaft/article_html/News_Item.2005-07-29.2455>
Mirko,
where can one actually view the brigade diary of your packing collective? I would appreciate a relevant link.
With international regards,
Roman, hoping for a Stakhanovite campaign by the Croatians soon. In smaller Germany, this was called the “Hennecke Movement”.
Gast
[font="Arial"]They have excluded themselves from our society!
[font="Times"]What is happening today at Agfa in Germany, Fuji in Japan and Kodak in the USA is a clear consequence of these companies’ decadent economic policies.
They had loyal customers and reliable partners in the photography enthusiasts of the Western world, but this was not enough for them; in their imperialist delusions of grandeur, they had to bet on digital technology and betrayed their customers.
This had to have consequences; the loyalty that had been granted them for so long could not be maintained, people switched to film stock from film factories where realism reigns; one should therefore shed no tears for them.
It is their own fault; the capitalists in these companies have only themselves to blame.
Their unscrupulous actions have cost jobs; how will these people get through the coming winter?
Nothing can stop analogue photography in its tracks!
cfb_de
Comrade,
Make sure your grammar (and use of commas) is better, avoid using the wrong articles, and improve your spelling!
Then – provided you have the right attitude towards peace and freedom – you might even become Chief Secretary for Information under Karl-Heinz Kunkel.
Not like this. You need to practise a bit more.
Best regards,
Franz
Gast
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http://www.vr-wolfenstein.de/
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