On 28 Jan 2004 at 13:27, Mr. Bill wrote:
> Come on! Why would anyone think that professional photographers use a
> significant amount of film? Amateur photographers, primarily new
> mom's use much more film than pros. Now I don't mean more in
> rolls/year/photographer but there are thousand of snapshooters using
> film compared to professionals.
>
> Professionals HAVE already switched to digital. The vast majority of
> professional photographers work is for reproduction and digital makes
> the workflow to print much, much easier and eliminates many steps.
>
> My 69 year old mother almost went digital this year. When she does,
> film is dead.
>
> Mr. Bill
The decisions are made when manufacturing plants and/or development
labs are technically written off, and need to be replaced....or not.
That's also what killed the last Kodachrome 120 lab in the end.
Leaving me with 40 useless rolls of K64 (even when they had told me
it would close, I still couldn't have shot that many in a few months,
not to mention willing to pay for such an amount at once).
Same happened with infrared HIE in 4x5" format....they changed
something somewhere in the production line, and never got it back on
track (pinholes)....nor willing to solve it (probably too expensive),
so they cancelled it completely.
--
Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
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