William Robb wrote: > Minilabs are doomed anyway. > Print counts from digital won't keep them open, and while I > am seeing a blip > at the moment, I am sure that is all it is. > As much as i would like it to be otherwise
The bulk of the people I mix with are camera owners and make no pretence of having any real interest in photography as an interest in its own right. I don't know anyone who has had any digital images from the lab. The whole reason to get a digital camera for most was the instant access to their own images, e-mail and their own printer. In well over a year with the istD I have never had any lab prints, but that was never the intention. > I'm close..... > I expect to be building my new darkroom this winter, and by a > year from now, > I will be back to shooting film for good. > I'll keep shooting digital for colour prints and the net, but > I expect to go > back to film for a lot of what I do, though it won't be 35mm. > > The shine has kinda worn of the old istD I feel increasingly isolated as a hobby photographer as I am no ones target for marketing. I bought into Pentax digital to use my old lenses and replace colour print film. This it has done. The istD is brilliant for all the things for which an instant picture is useful and can be printed off at home; but by far the biggest use is for e-mail attachments to letters for family and friends. If I want a shot to keep, it is out with the slide film and the LX and pictures you hand about at gatherings I find B & W ideal for. I can't image going fully digital, but I wouldn't like to go back to colour print film. Malcolm
