I agree completely! Before I left the industry a couple of years ago we were printing lots of digital media prints, and 99% of the cameras we sold were digital. About the only film we processed were from the one time use crowd. I would think that even that portion of processing is on the downswing.
Bill -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Robb Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 4:50 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: FID (Film is Dead) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Owens" Subject: RE: FID (Film is Dead) > The processing industry is not dying. The same minilabs that do film now > also print from digital media. This is what the vast majority of picture > takers (not photographers) want and the industry has responded. Bill, I think the processing industry as it relates to film is on it's way out. Printing is alive and well, though print volumes are down significantly, or at least were the last time I checked. It's not easy for me to get really accurate numbers now, as I am no longer in the business. For the record, I am not in the least bitter about that. I was rather bitter when the consumer decided that photolabs belonged in department stores, but honestly, wild horses couldn't drag me back into dealing with the idiots and morons that I had to contend with for the 20 years that I worked in the camera store/1hour lab business. 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
