On 9/12/05, Herb Chong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OTOH, Kodachrome is certain to be one of the fastest ones to be > discontinued. niche product in an already niche market. slide film accounted > for about 2% of Fuji's film sales in 2003.
You raise an interesting point, Herb. When I was a kid (like early 60's) my dad (who shot with a Yashica A tlr - the poor man's Mat, which was the poor man's Rolleiflex <g>) shot probably 80% chrome. He'd set up the projector, tape a sheet on the wall (we were too poor for a proper screen) and we'd all sit down to look at a new set of slides. When he did shoot prints, it was inevitably b&w. I recall that when I got my first 35mm camera, I shot a lot of chrome, a lot of b&w prints, and pretty much no colour prints. So, what killed chromes? The advent of C41? I can't believe that alone did it. Because while it certainly made colour prints economical for the snapshot consumer, the price differential didn't kill black and white, it merely wounded it. Any thoughts? cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
