I've been enjoying browsing through the New York Times website now that the pay area has come down. Here's an interesting column, going over that well discussed area of the decline and fall of the music industry
http://tinyurl.com/2of6uh http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/20/whats-the-future-of-the-music-industry-a-freakonomics-quorum/#more-1887 "[C]onsumers will always embrace the format that provides the greatest convenience". Mostly true for imaging. Wet plate > sheet film > roll film > 35mm > APS (uh-oh, better stop there). I was thinking of an equivalent to the 2-channel stereo exception mentioned by Fredric Dannen. Maybe the changeover from B&W to colour? Even then, in the long run, dropping off a roll of C41 is more convenient than mixing up developer and fixer yourself, even though the C41 process itself is more complex. But whereas music corporations resisted change, the various photo companies have more or less adapted well, either going with the flow (no one can say Kodak or Hasselblad haven't tried their best to adapt), or finding film niches even more profitable (Cosina, Ilford). There were some sad exceptions of course, such as Agfa or Konica. Maybe you could argue they adapted well by getting out. I wonder why that is. D -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
