On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > Rick Womer wrote: >>> >>> From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, in a link from a thread on >>> photo.net: >> >> http://tinyurl.com/9vyla8 >> >> Hope springs eternal, I guess... > > Reading between the lines of the main part of the article, and explicitly in > the comments from Rowe Photo, it seems that slide film is going to be well > and truly dead in the very near future. Looks like color negative will hang > on for a bit. I think I detect a bit of "rose colored glasses" effect even > there, though. > >
I'd expect colour negative to die first. Frankly I think any colour process is headed towards fringe status and shipping off to kansas for processing (if only because while I expect film sales to stay steady in terms of pro and serious amateur use, I expect more people to penny pinch and use mailers or do their own processing, killing off local but more expensive labs), but it's colour neg and its reliance on consumer (read disposable) sales that is going to continue to freefall. One of my local labs announced the end of E-6 processing for last september. They ended up having to postpone their discontinuance as the notice was the best ad they'd ever done for their slide processing. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
