Sorry! I thought you were being serious. I hate email. I happen to believe that the horse and buggy is a completely appropriate form of transportation, seriously. If I had enough land to grow the food a horse would require I would have and use one in a heartbeat.
Also if film were dead (or even on life support), there would not be two one hour minilabs in a town with under 10,000 population. On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > 'Twas a joke, sir. ]'-) > > Although with regard to the volume of commercial, saleable work being done > today, film might as well be dead. "A slightly different niche" is a niche > with a tiny percentage of the sales volume in media, chemistry and > processing work compared to 8 years ago. > > They still make buggy whips too. I doubt anyone has any illusion that the > horse drawn buggy is still "alive" as a transportation machine, though. :-) > > G > > On Mar 20, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Nick Wright wrote: > >> Now who's being ridiculous? >> >> If film is dead then why did Kodak make Ektar (now in 120 too)? Why >> did Fuji reintroduce Velvia? >> >> Why did a company show a new $1,600 enlarger at PMA? Why is >> Voigtlander still pumping out brand new rangefinders and lenses to go >> with? Not to mention their new Bessa III 6x7/6x6 rangefinder. >> >> Film is no more dead than painting is dead. It's just found a slightly >> different niche than it once had. >> >> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Never mind the fundamental truth of photography today: film is dead. >> >> -- >> ~Nick David Wright >> http://www.nickdavidwright.com/ > > > -- > 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. > -- ~Nick David Wright http://www.nickdavidwright.com/ -- 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.
