----- Original Message ----- From: "mike wilson" Subject: Re: OT: Interesting PMA numbers
> > 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. > Photography has always had an equipment component dependant on equipment sales and a consumables component depending on people shooting pictures and making prints. Up until the early 1980s, the two were pretty much independant of each other. Minilabs changed all that, as camera stores started installing small photolabs to take care of the proofing needs of a large % of their customer base. What digital has done is changed the way consumers look at their pictures, and has, to an extent, put the entire lab industry on life support. William Robb -- 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.
