Granted, I know that's true. I recently worked at one of them for a short bit.
But the fact remains that the film machine is a seperate machine from the printer and could easily be done away with but they don't. So obviously there's enough of a demand to do it. But then again, we might be surprised. When I worked there, there was more film brought in than I thought especially disposable cameras. On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 6:09 PM, William Robb <war...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Wright" > Subject: Re: Film is dead (was: Re: New gear, but now I have a decision to > make...) > > > > Also if film were dead (or even on life support), there would not be > two one hour minilabs in a town with under 10,000 population. > > > I think you'll find, if you ask, that their film volume is a miniscule % of > what it was 5 years ago and that the bulk of the printing they do is from > digital files. > I'd be very surprised if a film only minilab could remain profitable at this > point. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- ~Nick David Wright http://www.nickdavidwright.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
