Nearly all of the amateurs I talk to are very happy with digital. It's pretty simple for most. Paul On Jul 2, 2006, at 3:01 PM, William Robb wrote:
> > ----- 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 > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
