Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 16:16, B. D. Colen wrote: > Come on, Feli - There's no way that a year ago the memory card sales > would have outstripped the film sales. Besides...He didn't say numbers, > he said sales - which I take to mean dollars. At the normal full retail > price charged by most camera stores, it doesn't take many 35 exposure > rolls to equal the less expensive memory cards - which are what most > people buy - Hell, what's a 36 exposure roll of high speed Extachrome > RETAIL for? No one is saying that film sales aren't down and will continue to decline. It's just that for every customer who comes in his shop and buys a $100 dollar memory card, he would need to bring in 20 people who buy a $5 roll of film. The average consumer probably doesn't buy more than a roll or two at a time. I also bet that 99% of the people who buy a digital camera from him, also buy a memory card. Memory cards also have other uses, besides photography. I don't even own a digital camera and I have CF cards for my PocketPC. > The truth is that we now on the downhill side of the mountain dividing > Filmland from Digiland...Filmland is behind us, even if there are many > folks who have chosen to stay behind rather than explore the frontier. > ;-) We know that B.D. Hell, EVEN >I< will probably cave in and ADD a digital to my arsenal, when full frame chips become more common. I'll go kicking and screaming, and I'll whine incessantly about the loss of "the good old days, before the sissy cameras took over", but I'll go. 8-) Feli