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From: "mike wilson"
Subject: Re: The Nature of Film's Final Throes
Sales of cameras, probably. The British media is full of adverts from all
the photo companies begging people to buy their easy to use printers and
for-crying-out-loud to print something and use some consumeables. The
industry is only just beginning to see how badly it has wounded itself by
remving the cash cow that was film and processing.
Digital photography was going to happen, whether any old image industry
companies got on board or not.
The digital camera started life as an extension of the home electronics
market, not the camera/photography market of the time, I believe it was Sony
who made the first consumer digital camera.
Given my druthers, I'd be just as happy if digital had't come along.
It makes my daytime work unpleasant.
If the photofinishing industry hadn't reacted as early and as fully as it
did, there would be no industry left.
Film, on the other hand, is doomed.
The digital camera has made several fairly seperate industries into direct
competition with each other.
The film companies can either compete with the camera companies and
electronics companies, or get pushed out of the market, because it's all the
same market now.
William Robb
