Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/20

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Subject: [Leica] Kodak Sensor in M8
From: nathan at nathanfoto.com (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Wed Sep 20 04:58:33 2006
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I fully share Rick's faith in the market. This past weekend I went to  
see a meet of VW Beetle aficionados. These are cars that went out of  
production 30 years ago. And yet there were plenty of manufacturers  
represented who were offering *new* replacement and enhancement  
parts. Surely this is a small, obscure niche, and yet there are firms  
willing and able to meet its needs.

As long as there are people who want to shoot film, film will be  
available.

Nathan

On 20-sep-2006, at 13:09, Rick Dykstra wrote:

> Lets imagine that the current film manufacturers vanished  
> overnight.  That would leave a market opportunity of, what, a few  
> billion dollars per year to be filled by some new comers?  Sure,  
> film is not what it used to be, but it's still highly profitable  
> and where there's profit there'll be suppliers.  Film is here to  
> stay folks.
>
> Shoot it and they will make more.
>
> Rick.

Nathan Wajsman
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