Chris, Two things come to mind. First, Tokyo is HUGE. A handful of labs isn't much. I'm sure there are more, but the more interesting question is how many did there used to be 1-3 years ago? How fast they are closing is going to be a more accurate indicator of film usage. Also, many of those labs may be like many here in North America that handle both film and digital. So the question there is how much film development has dropped off.
Second thing comes to mind is that on the medium to large format front, film is still king. I could imagine many of those labs doing reasonable business dealing with those markets. -- Best regards, Bruce Wednesday, July 21, 2004, 1:56:59 PM, you wrote: CS> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Otis Wright wrote: >> Hmmm what? What did you expect? What did you find? What does it >> mean. Or, are we just putting out text these days? CS> Well OK, I easily found half a dozen labs or chains of labs in Tokyo CS> (including the one hour consumer places) that develop and print C41 film. CS> To me this begs the question that if digicams have reached saturation in CS> Japan, then who's films are they developing? CS> So my interpretations are; either digicams haven't reached saturation, the CS> labs get all their trade from backward foreigners :-) or film co-exists CS> to a surprising extent with digital in that temple of technology that is CS> Tokyo (now how's that for alliteration?!). CS> But your interpretation(s) may be different? CS> Chris
