----- Original Message ----- From: "Jens Bladt"
Subject: RE: The film is dead
Shel
Sadly this is true (the B&W stuff). I am, however, quite surprised that
black and white have lasted this long. Colour photography was invented app.
100 years ago. So, it has taken 100 years to out-compete black and white
photography. That's really quite amazing. I still think it has a future. Not
for every mans everyday pictures. But for art work.
Colour print photography was being toyed with a hundred years ago, but it was still very much the Holy Grail up until the mid 1920s, and wasn't commercially able to take on black and white until the early 1960s.
By the late 1960s, colour had become more popular than black and white.
William Robb
