Why are people lemmings for buying digital?? Whets wrong with appreciating the lack of development costs, or appreciating the convenience?? Why are people not lemmings when they use the more expensive, less convenient method, the method that does not mesh perfectly with our ever more digital world?? Get a grip man. I don't think most consumers ever really liked film, because they bought cheap film that didn't give them superb results in the first place. And now, you can get a smaller, vastly more convenient, and in the long run, vastly cheaper digital camera, a camera that suits the needs of the average person with a computer far better than film ever will, and you call them lemmings?? How about calling yourself stubborn? I dunno what animal that would be, maybe the buffalo... Ever heard of buffalo stampeding off a cliff?? Happened all the time, often at the hands of the Indians, they would stampede the buffalo then scare them down a gorge and over a cliff where warriors waited to pick the injured brutes off one by one.
-el gringo -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Waterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 9:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Film is Dying? (was Pentax is Dying?) This one time, at band camp, "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So who here has shed their excess film bodies in view of the pending fate of > film? > > I have, I'm down to the smallest number of film bodies I've had for many years > and I don't expect the number to ever increase either. On the contrary, I am buying up film bodies. I agree that market forces will be the demise of film. But I think film will survive, albeit on a smaller scale. Ilford are reporting an increase in sales of Black and White products. I think as the lemming consumers gobble up the latest fad-gadgets and digital P and S, the demand for film photographers will increase. These home point and shoot folks are revelling in the idea of 'free' photos. These are the same snappers who know little of photography and are happy with the results the super-market labs churn out. Digital is in its infancy and there is still no solution for achiving digital. Perhaps when it reaches adultery we may see folks coming back to film, when they realise they have been duped into a 'better' solution. Kind regards Kevin -- ______ (_____ \ _____) ) ____ ____ ____ ____ | ____/ / _ ) / _ | / ___) / _ ) | | ( (/ / ( ( | |( (___ ( (/ / |_| \____) \_||_| \____) \____) Kevin Waterson Port Macquarie, Australia
