Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Film is slowly dying..... according to Kodak at least... I was watching MSNBC over lunch the other day and they mentioned how Kodak said that their profits and film sales were down.... part to competition from Fuji etc... and part to digital... Hence their stock price has dropped some... To make this more personal.... My D30 arrived yesterday and is waiting for me as soon as I get back to the U.S. and well... I know my future film consumption will go down dramatically. It will be able to handle most of my day to day work and just about everything for publication where I don't need a really wide lens : And am I ever looking forward to not having to shoot the film... run to the lab, go back to the lab and then spend most of a day scanning images to get things into a digital format... I'll actually have more time to do things like go out and shoot images... Hip hip Hurray... Duane Birkey HCJB World Radio Quito Ecuador Duane's Photographs of Ecuador: http://duane_birkey.tripod.com >> . Film is dying, if not yet dead, sorry I thought I would never say >> that. <<<<< >I'm no expert on industry matters, but I was recently having lunch with a >camera shop owner friend of mine who said that the increase in digital (now >40% of the market in Italy) was not affecting film-based camera sales. It >is a new market, at least according to him. >However, I can't help but believe that in the long run digital will push >film into a tiny niche at most. And in the long long run, eliminate it. >Rob. >Robert Appleby