William Robb wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "mike wilson"
Subject: Re: Re: The Nature of Film's Final Throes
I think this is an area where the photographic industry has dealt
itself a
severe, if not mortal, blow. If you give Mr & Mrs Sixpack (who _do not
care_ about quality) a way to look at their pictures for free, how can
you
possibly expect them to buy prints?
Fortunately, Joe and his wife are, for the most part, beer swilling
semi-neanderthals who are not literate enough to figure out how to run a
computer.
Looking at my sales figures over the past couple of years, film processing
is now at ~30% of where it peaked out 3 years ago, but prints are running
closer to 75%.
William Robb
Whichever way you look at it, that's down in all areas. It will be
interesting to see how things pan out in the next few years.
BTW, I don't expect the family Sixpack to run a computer. They will
just pass the camera around. The LCD is only slightly smaller than the
prints they are used to. Seen it done.
m
