"Butch Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >my >guess is that in 5 years there will be a drastic drop off in the number of >places you will be able to get any processing, film or digital done.
I think you're right with regards to film but not digital processing. Film processing requires enough space, cost and maintenance (not to mention a machine operator). Digital prints come from a self-serve kiosk that costs very little to buy and operate. I expect film minilabs to start disappearing in the next two years but digital print kiosks are going to be getting cheaper and popping up *more* in places where we've never seen them before. As someone else has pointed out, the death of film (as a mainstream product) won't be caused by its quality but by its availability and the cost and availability of processing. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
