As long as, for most people, the camera of choice is the disposable camera, there will be film made at least for that purpose. I bet that the majority of film made these days is made to go into those things.
The niche market will be for so-called "pro" film, diapositive film and b&w. Once they become "specialty" films, watch the price go up, and the availability go down... regards, frank Pål Jensen wrote: > Mark quoted: > > "Photographic film, the product that helped create both a city and a > company, is heading for the fate of the American elm tree, white gloves, > enclosed phone booths, slide rules, carbon paper and other pieces of > vanishing Americana." > > REPLY: > > Generally true but slightly pessimistic. Film will become a niche market and > certainly not large enough to keep a giant like Kodak healthy. However, somebody is > going to want to use those millions of film bodies out there. Other would use film > as an artistic choice. However, the writing is on the wall for film as a mass > comodity. > > Pål -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
