Well, not really, but sort of. Our local Noritsu rep and I had an off the record conversation yesterday. She just bought herself a digital camera. Her reasoning is that she doesn't think film is going to be well supported by the finishing industry for very much longer, though it will, of course, still be available and supported. She doesn't think that her company is putting much by way of resources into improving film scanning, and really doesn't see minilab scanning getting much better, if at all.
Her opinion is that digital will replace film, in much the same way that the compact disc replaced long play records, and that it will happen at a very fast pace. IIRC, the compact disc came out in around 1984 or so, and records were pretty much history by the early 1990s. Film's days may be severely numbered. William Robb
