Feedback I have been hearing that there may be a digital backlash soon, especially in the P&S market, as folks just find digital camreas too complicated to use.
It may be that a lot of people return to nice and easy P&S iin the near future. A./ On 23/9/04 10:41 pm, "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bill Owens" > > Subject: Re: Film is dead, no one will bring out a new 35mm film > camera > > >> I'm not sure about this. We've been running a survey at the Wally > World >> where I work in the Photo Center. Since September 1,we've sold 1 > P&S film >> camera and 27 digital cameras. Probably close to 50% of our film > processing >> is from one time use cameras. Digital processing via our kiosk is >> increasing daily. > > The scuttlebut I am hearing is that Nikon is getting out of film P&S > cameras entirely. No biggie there, they don't make their own anyway, > but that they will release on final high end film SLR (the F6), as > they feel there will be enough demand for it to justify it. > The really high end cameras such as the Nikon F series are, to a > great extent, cachet cameras for amateur photographers, rather than > tools for professionals anyway. > Canon has, I believe, indicated that they are pretty much out of the > film SLR business, I wouldn't expect another top end film EOS, > although another Rebel may come down the pike at some point. > Our processing numbers and camera sales numbers match yours pretty > closely. I think we have a higher % of film to one time use at the > moment, but the trend is definitely there. > > One thing though, we are not getting many more one time cameras in as > compared to last year, according to our recycling figures, but we are > processing a lot less film. > > William Robb > >
