Support your first sentence with facts please.
Tom C. >From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: FID (Film is Dead) >Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:30:40 -0400 > >I don't know tons of young photographers, but those into the craft, use >film. Those who use digital just make "reality TV" with no arr or >thought. It serves them but these are the same people who bought P&S >cameras. I expect that there will always be a market for B&W materials, >and as I pointed out, you can make the printing paper in your bathroom, >(or something like it, that is the way it was done for 75-80% of the >history of what we know as photography). I will miss color slides, >sometimes I do already. > >Tom C wrote: > >> Film not only is, it has been superceded by an alternative technology >that > >> has been embraced not only by the professional community, but also by >the > >> mainstream user. > >> > >> Film may see a renaissance of sorts, though I doubt it. More likely, >within > >> a very few years it will become so financially unworthwhile to >manufacture > >> that even the Chinese will give up on making it, and that will be the >end > >> of > >> the line for it. > >> > >> William Robb > >> > >> > >> > > > > This is the statement I agree with most out of the whole thread. I see >film > > almost the same as I see vinyl records. There will be under 1% of the > > consumer base that cares about film, even B&W film. What most people >see in > > a B&W photo is the absence of color, not the nuances that can be had by > > using certain films and processing techniques. I don't see a film > > renaissance either, it's just common sense. > > > > Shortly the combined income of street sketch and caricature artists will > > exceed the income made by film sales and processing. > > > > Morbid thought... The demise of film will continue to accelerate as >those > > who use film kick the bucket, and those who have only used film in their > > childhoods couldn't care less about using it in the present or future. > > > > Tom C. > > > > > > > > > > >-- >The difference between Microsoft and 'Jurassic Park': >In one, a mad businessman makes a lot of money with beasts that should be >extinct. >The other is a film. > -- Unattributed > > >-- >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
