Graywolf wrote: > What I really like is this idea that we (amateur > photographers) are a major force in the marketplace. A > company like, say, GM probably throws out more slide > projectors in a day then all of us on this list together will > buy in our entire lifetimes. I love projected slides, but I > don't think that will keep Kodak in the business. On any day > you will probably find more than a 100 current listings for > slide projectors under $100 on Ebay, so why pay $300-400 for > a new one, and if we won't who will? The corporate and > educational markets, the major ones, for slide projectors are dead.
An interesting reply and I hear what you say. However, as an amateur photographer I can pop into my local newsagent and always see a couple of different camera magazines and at a big newsagent loads of different titles. These often run full page colour adverts tempting me to buy a manufactures film or new film camera. This isn't free for them! As you say, for the major corporate markets we may well be small beer, but come a slow down in such a companies sales, the I.T. and training depts are usually the first to be starved of funds, but at least amateur photographers provide a dependable and steady income. All things change in time, but technologies that work hang around long after their perceived sell by date (video cameras being the death of photography as a case in point or floppy discs demising after the CD). Now digital will kill film. Can't see it myself for a good few years yet, although it may end up as an order up product. Thanks for the comments on eBay prices on slide projectors. I just hope I don't end up in a bidding war on an MF version with Jostein <g>. Malcolm
