----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" Subject: Re: Coming Soon - A new K-mount Film Camera
> > On Jul 2, 2006, at 2:46 PM, Jens Bladt wrote: > >> But for the average P&S or family album photographer, film is surely >> the >> easiest way to go. > > Millions of people disagree with you. And they've expressed their > disagreement by abandoning film in droves. Is the vast majority of the > world wrong, while Jens is right? I doubt it. Late in my carreer as a lab tech, I was running into this issue with customers. A lot of people felt they had been sold a bill of goods with digital, having been told one thing, and finding the reality to be rather different. The reality, at the amateur level, is long lineups to wait for self serve machines to be available, kludgy web interfaces with online printing services, and a general level of frustration. A lot of people didn't so much abandon film as get told by a self serving home electronics industry that the new way was the only way. I had customers express surprise that we could still process film, and I had customers switch back to film after finding this out. You are reading a lemminglike jump into the digital abyss as abandoning film, the reality for a lot of people was just uneducated decision making. Digital photography hasn't so much been embraced by amateurs as forced down their throats. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
