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

Even if it goes the way of etching and engraving and mezzotints there will 
still be something available, and more than likely you'll find a way to stay 
involved. And if not? All the more reason to enjoy it while it's here.

We're too big of a niche market to ignore. Just look at all the flickr members 
who use film - multiply the number by approximate expenditure, and there's sure 
be some money worth having a slice of.

I'd worry more about color slides and color negatives than black & white.

E.

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From: "Robert Lilley" <54moggie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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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