Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:50 PM 2/22/06 -0500, Scott McLoughlin wrote: >Is this mostly an issue in small towns or suberbs? > >At least the various Ritz cameras around downtown DC I >sometimes use always have someone in the back working at the >machine and cranking out prints. I don't know about the Penn >Cameras downtown because the "guts of the operation" are not >visible. But Penn is still renting out MF film gear, selling film >including a reasonable selection of B&W films and 120 films, >and so forth. Scott The issue is that we film users are now a niche market and that commercial development of our pictures will become increasingly difficulat to find over the decades to come. There is no problem with this: that is just the way it is. We are in a minority market and a shrinking one. Perhaps I should set up a specialty shop to do film processing. Hmm. Every time a cash register sounds, it means an angel is born, or so the tale runs. <he grins> Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505