And I hate to even think about the hit I'm going to take on the Jobo processor and Phillips enlarger :-(
(When the *ist D gets back from Colorado) Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 5:37 PM Subject: Anyone want to buy a film fridge? > ...because it looks as if a lot of camera shops are going to be selling > them soon. I just stopped in at my local store and discovered that > they've cut down from three film refrigerators to one, and that one is > only about 1/3 filled. I think I'm probably going to be *forced* to buy > my film by mail order before too long. > I'm wondering if we're hitting the "knee" in the curve of digital > replacing film. As more people go digital the demand for film drops, > causing retailers to stock less film...which gives more people incentive > to go digital...which makes the shops reduce film stock further...and so > on in a self-stoking cycle. > This kind of process starts out slow but accelerates wildly once a > certain threshold is crossed. I expect professional-grade films and > consumer films will hit this point at different times but I think it may > be happening now with respect to the good stuff. > > Time to start scrounging money for an *ist-D. > > -- > Mark Roberts > Photography and writing > www.robertstech.com > >

