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....
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From: "Frits Wüthrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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).


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