the November Popular Photography says that they estimate sales in the last year of SLR cameras have been about 40% DSLRs. i don't know if i believe that, but it sounds plausible. they said that half a million DSLRs were sold in the last year worldwide.
Herb.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frits Wüthrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 9:07 AM Subject: Kodak and Digital > Kodak is going to close the complete photolab in Waddinxveen in the > Nederlands, and 116 people will lose their job. This all because of the > maassive move of consumers from film based photography to digital. > The diminishing sales on film is compensated by the increase of digital > Kodak products, like camera's and a sort of counters at supermarkets and > photostores, where consumers can create prints from the pictures they > made using the camera build into their cellular (=mobile) phone. > The photolab work for the Nederlands will now be done from the Kodak lab > in Belgiom (Oostende).