> > I think Facebook, Livejournal and MySpace have put a nail in the > > general printing market and it's going to tail off to much smaller > > numbers. Why print your crappy vacation photos when you can > share them > > will all your friends, properly annotated, on Facebook? It's pretty > > much what every non-serious shutterbug I know does. Prints are for > > grandmas and serious shooters. > > So instead of having an intrinsically renewable part of the > process (film and processing/printing) photography now relies > on selling the customer new equipment to maintain its income > stream. Interesting business model. >
that was pretty much always the case for the camera makers. There's no such thing as 'photography' in the sense you use it. The film/print model has perhaps been replaced by the very expensive ink which doesn't last very long model. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
