> > From: "Adam Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/07/27 Sun PM 10:00:27 GMT > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT: Interesting PMA numbers > > On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 1:51 PM, mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > >> From: "John Celio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Date: 2008/07/26 Sat PM 04:14:31 GMT > >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > >> Subject: Re: OT: Interesting PMA numbers > >> > >> > In 2000, US consumers made 29.9 billion prints from film, and 500,000 > >> > prints from digital > >> > sources. In 2007, consumers made 8.9 billion prints from film, and 16.3 > >> > prints from digital. > >> > 2008 projects to be 5.8 billion film prints, 16.3 digital prints. > >> > In 2007, 35% of digital prints were made at home, that number is > >> > projected > >> > to fall to 31% in > >> > 2008. > >> > >> This last part does not surprise me. Consumers are hopefully waking up to > >> the cost-vs-convenience factor of printing at home, plus the potential > >> technical and quality issues that come with trying to be your own > >> photofinisher. For the sake of photolabs everywhere, I hope the > >> print-at-home number continues to drop. > > > > Er, but the numbers show that there are now ~6_billion_ fewer prints being > > commercially made per year in the US. I suspect the fall is even more > > dramatic in the UK. It's been at least five years since I noted the > > preponderance of "Please print _something_" adverts on UK television. > > I think Facebook, Livejournal and MySpace have put a nail in the > general printing market and it's going to tail off to much smaller > numbers. Why print your crappy vacation photos when you can share them > will all your friends, properly annotated, on Facebook? It's pretty > much what every non-serious shutterbug I know does. Prints are for > grandmas and serious shooters.
So instead of having an intrinsically renewable part of the process (film and processing/printing) photography now relies on selling the customer new equipment to maintain its income stream. Interesting business model. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
