----- Original Message ----- From: "Toralf Lund"
Subject: Re: The slow and painful death of film.
It would be at least mildly interesting to have the numbers of the years leading up to 2003, too, though. What I mean to say is that if 2003 was a particularly good year for film processing, then obviously you might have expected the volume to drop a bit in 2004 and 2005 even without digital.
Up until 2003, film processing had been steadily increasing, rates of increase anywhere from 8-14 % per year, until 2003, which is where things peaked off. We were expecting volumes to drop because of the penetration of digital into the marketplace.
BTW, last September I was informed by the local(ish) large Kodak lab that my film&prints would be delivered a bit late because they had an unprecedented amount of work (but some of it may have been digital prints.) About a month later, they announced in the newspapers that they would be closing down the lab in January. Weird...
A couple of people calling in sick for a few shifts will somethimes cause that too.
William Robb
