Re: Re: Hurrah for Shel Disrobing the Emperor

[Herb Chong]

camera phones have killed single use film cameras. lots of people expect 
Kodak and Fuji's film business to shrink another 14% this year. OTOH, Kodak 
has pulled into third place in worldwide digital camera sales. most of that 
volume is in the US, but you can see where that is headed. they pulled ahead 
of Olympus and are only behind Canon and Sony.

FWIW, there are just under 2.5M DSLRs sold worldwide last year with Canon 
accounting for 58%, or 1.45M. Kodak accounted for 3.8%, or 95,000 units. 
Nikon has sold over a million D70's since its introduction. apparently the 
detailed numbers are in an IDC report that you have to pay for to get.

Herb....
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: Re: Hurrah for Shel Disrobing the Emperor


The reality here is that for the mainstream it's getting difficult to find 
film
let alone a film camera. Even the camera store brochures only have a half 
page
or a page dedicated to film cameras these days. I know we aren't quite 
third
world here but film has pretty much had it, there are sufficient digital 
print
facilities around the place that people don't need computers to make 
prints.