>From what I see, Mr. Robb, you live outside of the USA, and I'd suggest that what you are seeing and experiencing is relative to your market and those in similar situations.
Here in the hinterlands of California, as well as the larger creative hubs such as los Angeles and San Francisco, film is very much alive. Why just last week I shot a roll and am waiting for it to come back from the drug store. My clients are quite excited knowing that tomorrow may be the day. I shall amble across town, which is just a few short blocks, and have an ice cream soda at the fountain while the young lad behind the photo counter gets the prints. On Tuesday I shall drive to San Francisco and do some studio work using both a digital setup and a standard Hasselblad, and later in the day I will take my niece to the beach where she will use her very own film camera to continue a project photographing the beach. All of the students in her class, of which there are about twenty, are using film. I think film is far from dead, far from dying. Digital is getting a lot of attention, and may decimate if not destroy film some day. Yet from San Francisco to Singapore, in every city to which I've travelled, there seems to be a lot of people using film and regular cameras. Jerry Todd Dancing Frog Studios Calavera, California > [Original Message] > From: William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Pentax Discuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 7/18/2004 10:10:37 PM > Subject: Re: Film vs Digita, was: lRe: Pentax is Dying? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Apilado" > Subject: Re: Film vs Digita, was: lRe: Pentax is Dying? > > > > When gas prices in the States went up, I didn't see people > abandoning their > > cars for public transportation. What happens if the price of ink > and paper > > go up by a factor of 2, 5, or 10? Would you abandoned digital? > > What if gas went to 10 dollars a gallon rather than two? > Would they take the bus then? > Do people think cars are more necessary to their lifestyle than film > cameras? > What if film is 20 dollars a roll rather than two? > Will they still shoot it? > Or will they just go out and buy a digital for a hundred bucks? > Do you think that if the price of ink and paper increases by a huge > factor that the price of getting film printed won't go up by the same > margin? > Or greater? > > I assure you, I am seeing the demise of film first hand. > It's happening, and no amount of wishful thinking is going to change > it. > I will keep you posted as to how fast it's happpening, but right now, > it seems about 50% dead. > > William Robb >
