"William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We've had this discussion before. My opinion, not shared by most of >the list, it seems, is that by the time a developing maket can afford >to support film to the extent needed to keep it a viable commodity, >it will probably be able to support digital.
Price of Fuji Frontier minilab for film: $300,000.00 Price of Fuji PrintPix to make 4x6 prints from digital: $6,000.00 Yeah, there are cheaper minilab setups than the Frontier (in fact, there are thousands of perfectly good minilabs in storage because there's no longer enough business to keep them in operation and you could probably pick one up for under $10,000.00) but there are also cheaper digital printing kiosks than the PrintPix. There's still a big difference in operating costs and complexity. I've said it before: There are going to be places that skip the film photography era altogether and go straight to digital. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
