Hi, > What's interesting to speculate to me is what will happen in places > where there is *no* film processing infrastructure now. Digital kiosks > are much less expensive, smaller and easier to manage than C-41 > minilabs. I wouldn't be surprised if some places go straight to digital > without ever getting film-based photography at all, just as there were > surely some places a hundred years ago that experienced photography > first as film and never went through the wet plate phase.
a country needs a whole lot of other infrastructure in place to support computers. You can get a traditional photography business going without electricity if you really want to. That's what happened in Europe. -- Cheers, Bob
