It is my understanding that it's the print films that have crashed in sales, since that is what the point-and-shooters use...and they have largely gone digital. E-6 and black and white are holding up well, though.
> > >Just from my own worm's-eye-view of the industry, I expect 35mm C-41 >film and the RA-4 print process is doing reasonably well, and will be >around for a while yet. It's all hybrid now with the film scanned and >the prints exposed with lasers, but they're still processed with the >same chemistry. Makes it a lot easier to give the average consumer a >good print. > >And disposable cameras are big. For the average picture taker, it was a >pretty big problem to get to a vacation spot they'd saved up for for >years and then find out they'd forgotten to pack the camera. Not any more. > >Now, if you get to your destination and find you find you don't have it, >you can pick up a disposable that's at least good enough for snapshots >of the kids at Disneyworld. And if you make it to some tropical >paradise, you can get a waterproof one to take pictures during your >snorkeling lesson ... or not have to risk your high dollar camera on >that white-water rafting adventure. > >And a significant number of the digital images taken today end up >processed into RA-4 prints. Grandma don't need no steenkin' computer to >look at prints of the kids trying on the sweater she sent them for >Christmas. -- Steve Sharpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://earth.delith.com/photo_gallery.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
