[Leica] no film in a decade

[rmcclure2 at woh.rr.com (Rob McClure)]

I remember doing an internship at an NBC affiliate television station 
while attending the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown circa 1975.  
The news department was exclusively shooting 16mm movie film, which was 
processed and edited by cutting and splicing.  I remember questioning 
the station manager about the possibility of converting to the emerging 
technology of video cameras.  His comment was, "It will never happen, 
film looks better on air and is more reliable."  WIthin a couple of 
years he was proven wrong as videotape was universally accepted.

A few years later I toured a Veeder-Root plant which built gas pumps.  
The pumps they built were traditional with mechanical dials with 
painted numbers that rotated to show how much gas was pumped and the 
price.  Pumps with lighted number displays were starting to emerge and 
when I questioned the plant manager he said, "LED displays will never 
catch on -- they can't be read in the daylight and burn out.  A few 
years later his  plant was closed, replaced by higher tech companies 
that could manufacture lighted  dials.

As much as we may wish otherwise, things change.

Rob McClure
Upper Sandusky, OH

On Jan 21, 2006, at 3:55 PM, George Lottermoser wrote:

>> Absolutely true - because without the support of enough 'weekend
>> snapsters,"
>> there's unlikely to be any film realistically available within a
> decade,
>> or
>> less.
>
> Just curious - is this "no film" phenomena also happening in the "film"
> industry. In other words are the "movie makers" also ready to throw in
> the towel for their first generation originals?
>
> regards, George
>
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Rob McClure
Upper Sandusky, OH