From: "William Robb" > The industry as a whole is showing declines in sales of sensitized > products (film) of some 20% per year, Fuji is (apparently) no longer > making B&W film or film cameras, Agfa is no longer making film, Kodak > is no longer making B&W paper and has offshored their film manufacture > to China. > Nikon is making the F6 film camera and is rebadging a Cosina as the > FM10, and has no intention of making another film camera, Canon is > recycling their cameras without improvement, Pentax is no longer > showing 35mm SLR cameras ar all. > Konica is gone from the film market entirely. > Infotrends is indicating that by the end of the decade, "90% of > professional pictures will be taken with digital cameras, and less > than 40% of professional photographers will still use film cameras". > > You'all just don't seem to be getting it.
No, it's you who don't get it. We all understand all that market-speak about declining sales revenues. Sure, Kodak off-shored their film manufacture to the Chinese. But, you know what? The Chinese saw an opportunity to make some money supplying film to those of us who still want it. Somebody bought Agfa's equipment. Maybe it was just for the parts, like someone wrote, but I expect it was because they thought they'd found a market. It may be a niche market, but it's still a market. All the pros are going digital. BFD! So what? We just don't care! You see a glass half empty and getting emptier by the moment. We see there's still enough left in the bottle for those of us who want another round. And if not, somewhere, someone's making another bottle right now. I use both digital and film. I do so because ->BOTH<- fill some desire, some need I have for capturing an image. And I'm not alone. Together with my fellow film fans [try saying *THAT one* fast three times] - who happen to be legion, BTW - we form a market; a demand ... and where there's a demand, there will be a supply. If it ain't under Kodak's brand, what difference does it make? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
