Man, am I the only one to think that this is *really sad*? It's not easy to get people to understand the consequences either.
/Henri
Mark Roberts wrote:
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.
