[rollei_list] Missing the boat - RE: Re: FREE Tri-X

I would come under the hobbyist and fine arts photographer heading.  I
follow all these digital vs. film discussions closely.  I don't understand
the digital world as much as I understand film.  So in the midst of all this
digital talk I am building a full sized darkroom complete with utilities,
ventilation, cabinets, sink, etc.  Am I a fool? 

I was in a gallery in Blairstown, NJ a week ago.  One of the exhibitors was
a silver printing photographer who had a little place card under her work
stating that folks better buy up silver prints now because there isn't going
to be any film or paper in the future.

I listened to a former head of photography at the Museum of Natural History
tell me that if she was buying large format today she wouldn't purchase a
5x7 camera.  She doesn't think film will be in available in that size soon

Five camera stores in my area closed this past year - the general lament, "I
can't compete in the digital market".

Then I read your folks on the internet who are slowly but surely are going
digital.  It seems that soon film will be relegated to just the collectors
who sound like tree frogs exercising their shutters as film's sun sinks in
the west.

Am I a Don Quixote de la Mancha tilting vanishing windmills, a Luddite
watching the world pass me by?  Do I not understand something, did I miss
the announcement?  

Rob 

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