Henri Toivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Something that is dying/already dead is consumer color negative film. >I work at a smallish minilab and development is down like, 70%.
Even though I'm doing grad school full time and getting an increasing volume of freelance work (more about that in another post), I'm still working a few hours a week at the photo shop. I think Tri-X now outsells all our other films (color and B&W) combined. Certainly if you combine the numbers for Tri-X and TMAX that would be the vast majority of our film sales. And overall film sales are way down. >A couple of years ago, a good day we got in 30 rolls. A good day today >is like over 5 rolls. >I'm not sure how long we will be able to stay in business, because this >is not looking good. Same here. I don't know how much longer that shop will survive. We get good money for our digital services like scanning & restoration of old prints (this is what I spend most time doing) but we don't have the money to adequately promote this service, so we don't get as much coming in as we should. >To make things worse, people don't buy their cameras in a shop anymore. >They come to the shop, look at the cameras, touch and feel and ask >questions, then they say straight out that they will go home and order >one from the net because it's alot cheaper. Yep. We don't even stock cameras any more. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
