Phillippe,
I saw your impressive list and found many of our customers on it :-)
I do not want to desilusionate you- I am only touching bases. So to me the question still remains: Will they buy one roll of 220 film if two rolls of 120 film are cheaper ?
Did you ever bring this up ?
I understand that all these people want 220 back (and if they have cameras build to accept 220 film this is fully understandable why) but are they actually willing to put down money or do they just want it back at the old price like in the good old days ?
See we had quite some companies over here in germany who were dumping film in the markets like crazy at incredibly low prices. They did not make any money on the gods sold. Now these companies are all bust and vanished of the markets. If you ask the photograhers if they want these companies back they all shout at once: "yes please have them come back they were great because everything was so cheap" but if you tell them OK but in order to do so you would have to pay a price that makes it possible for these companies to survive, all the interest is suddenly gone and they reply: " well in this case I have no interest because at regular prices I can also get it somewhere else".
As to my opinion as long a there is any option cheaper than the other that?s where all photographers go.
So this would be the key issue to me. Not only a list of people who want 220 film back in the way it used to be before the manufactureres for good reasons stopped the production but rather a list of people who say: I want it back so much that I am willing to pay a premium to make it happen even if this is more than the price for an alternative product (like 120).
These people could really be the ones that make it happen if there are enough of them.
No critics here. Don?t get me wrong.
I fully support your project but someone has to put down money here and whoever might that be needs qualified information to make a decision.
So this is supposed to be like a little test. Just as if you went to the bank and applied for a loan and they ask you all kinds of strange questions <img src='http://forum.fotoimpex.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />
Regards,
Mirko
I saw your impressive list and found many of our customers on it :-)
I do not want to desilusionate you- I am only touching bases. So to me the question still remains: Will they buy one roll of 220 film if two rolls of 120 film are cheaper ?
Did you ever bring this up ?
I understand that all these people want 220 back (and if they have cameras build to accept 220 film this is fully understandable why) but are they actually willing to put down money or do they just want it back at the old price like in the good old days ?
See we had quite some companies over here in germany who were dumping film in the markets like crazy at incredibly low prices. They did not make any money on the gods sold. Now these companies are all bust and vanished of the markets. If you ask the photograhers if they want these companies back they all shout at once: "yes please have them come back they were great because everything was so cheap" but if you tell them OK but in order to do so you would have to pay a price that makes it possible for these companies to survive, all the interest is suddenly gone and they reply: " well in this case I have no interest because at regular prices I can also get it somewhere else".
As to my opinion as long a there is any option cheaper than the other that?s where all photographers go.
So this would be the key issue to me. Not only a list of people who want 220 film back in the way it used to be before the manufactureres for good reasons stopped the production but rather a list of people who say: I want it back so much that I am willing to pay a premium to make it happen even if this is more than the price for an alternative product (like 120).
These people could really be the ones that make it happen if there are enough of them.
No critics here. Don?t get me wrong.
I fully support your project but someone has to put down money here and whoever might that be needs qualified information to make a decision.
So this is supposed to be like a little test. Just as if you went to the bank and applied for a loan and they ask you all kinds of strange questions <img src='http://forum.fotoimpex.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />
Regards,
Mirko
