----- Original Message ----- From: "mike wilson"
Subject: Re: Re: The Nature of Film's Final Throes
I think this is an area where the photographic industry has dealt itself a severe, if not mortal, blow. If you give Mr & Mrs Sixpack (who _do not care_ about quality) a way to look at their pictures for free, how can you possibly expect them to buy prints?
Fortunately, Joe and his wife are, for the most part, beer swilling semi-neanderthals who are not literate enough to figure out how to run a computer. Looking at my sales figures over the past couple of years, film processing is now at ~30% of where it peaked out 3 years ago, but prints are running closer to 75%. William Robb
