Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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