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From: "Mark Roberts" <[email protected]>
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: PESO: Film is Dead
Bruce Dayton wrote:
Certainly a tell-tale sign of the future of film. Sounds like the
cost to get color developed is only going to rise until doing it at
home is the only viable option.
I'm sure glad I sold my film gear when it still had some value.
About two years ago I stopped in at one of the big box stores in a
major shopping mall in Pittsburgh and decided to have a look at the
photo lab. I chatted with the manager there and learned that their
daily volume for film processing was... about 5 rolls. "Sometimes 10 a
day on weekends". I'm sure the level has gone down since then. Before
long it won't even be worthwhile for them to use film processing as a
loss-leader to get customers in the door. Expect the cost of chemistry
to skyrocket then.
None of the students in my classes has ever used a film camera.
I've met some students this week who have never seen a record player (I
quickly told them to google record player and click web images), and I used
the expression *45* and received lots of wrinkled brows; I then proceeded to
define the term used. :-)
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