Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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.
True. But you don't need computers for digital photography these days (except in the most pedantic sense: that there computer chips built into digital cameras, printers and card-reader/printer kiosks). >You can get a traditional photography business going >without electricity if you really want to. I don't think you could get a modern C-41 or E6 photography business going without electricity now. And that's the kind of thing consumers want. I am really talking about consumer "get your prints done at the corner shop" photography here. >That's what happened in Europe. But I don't think that'll happen again. I expect photography won't get to places where it doesn't exist now until *after* electricity reaches them. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
