Antonio said: > I dunno, I think film is doing fine considering. Sure a lot of people > will switch to digital for the convenience factor, but it is a bit > extreme to say film is dying (i.e. that it will eventually completely > disappear) - the results you get from film are just too good. Anyway we > are talking just 35mm here - in MF and LF film still rules the roost, > and apart from say sport and newspaper photogs, most pro's use MF > anyway.
If you remove "sport and newspaper photogs" from the list of pros, leaving the medium format shooters in the group, you're still left with wedding photogs and I hear & read in various places (can't recall exact references, perhaps others can help here) that lots of those who used to use medium format have already switched or are in the process of switching to digital. I think that then leaves commercial (products, advertising) and landscape/nature/wildlife people, and ... ? Do we know what they're doing? I think some of the gang here might have some idea. (I'm pretty sure I read this here as well as hearing it word-of-mouth, so it should be in the archives -- anyway, some of the folks on this list are in the business and would know if that's the trend. Including at least one wedding photographer who *has* switched from medium format to digital.) In other words, digital is apparently also making some inroads into the medium format market, and although I am not in a position to know how strong a trend this is, that information may well be available to us in this discussion. Of course none of us can know for sure what WILL happen ... ERN
