On Jan 22, 2010, at 5:20 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. >> > > Film use is trending up overall among serious shooters, which is good > for the pro labs, and since the lab market contracted I know we're > seeing higher volumes at the major labs here in Toronto (I'm getting > told that volumes are too high for 1 hour service on occasion of > late). Consumer film use continues to drop massively and I expect the > 1 hour labs to finally disappear over the next couple of years along > with disposables (which are essentially the last remaining consumer > film market). > > You'd be surprised how many people I see starting off with digital and > shifting to film. A lot of them end up shooting MF or LF too. Out of > the 40 or so regulars in my local photographer's drinking club, 2/3rds > or so shoot film regularly, half or so shoot some MF, 1/4 shoot LF, > and 1/4 (but not the same quarter) shoot primarily film, including 1 > whose primary camera is a Speed Graphic. I'm in the last group myself > (primarily film shooter). We've even got several people who shoot > exclusively film, but the majority shoot a mix. Pure digital shooters > are minority, > Odd. The opposite is true here. I think we have only a handful who shoot film regularly. Reminds me. I have to finish that roll in the Leica! Paul > -Adam > > -- > 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.
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