Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/14

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Subject: [Leica] Film Economics
From: buzz.hausner at verizon.net (buzz.hausner@verizon.net)
Date: Wed Jul 14 07:55:21 2004

Oh, Kodak reassured you.  Well, that sure makes me feel a whole lot better!

Buzz

> 
> From: Afterswift@aol.com
> Date: 2004/07/14 Wed AM 10:52:07 EDT
> To: lug-request@leica-users.org,  lug@leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] Film Economics
> 
> 
> In a message dated 7/14/04 7:38:31 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org writes:
> 
> << I'm not saying that analog will disappear completely, but I do think
> that it
> will become a medium used by a minority of people, who will be paying a
> lot
> more for it than they do now. >>
> ---------------------------------------
> With some perspective, it seems to me that the world market is large 
> enough 
> to sustain high volume film production indefinitely that will keep prices 
> competitive with commercial digital printing. Kodak assured me that film 
> R&D goes 
> on uninterrupted. For a lot of folks, like my sister, digital is 
> will-o-the-wisp. She just can't get hold of something as invisible and 
> non-tangible as an 
> image file. 
> 
> I've come to appreciate film and digital and use them both where each fits 
> into the picture. Life doesn't get much better than that!
> 
> Bob