[rollei_list] Re: The Future of Film

Hey Marc, I've learned long ago avoid saying never.

John

Marc James Small wrote:
> 
> Kodak is getting out of the B&W paper business;  the ending of its B&W film
> and chemistry offerings is only a matter of time.
> 
> Many have commented on the reality that other companies will continue to
> fill this market, perhaps for the long haul.  The problem with this is that
> Kodak dominated the US market so thoroughly that AGFA and Ilford were often
> hard to find in camera stores, though Fuzzy had bullied its way into the
> door of many of these shops over the past ten years.
> 
> Given the explosion of digital in recent years, most local camera stores
> have gone over to the Dark Side.  And, with Kodak out of the picture, they
> are not going to fill the gap with Ilford, Agfa, Berger, or Forte products:
>  they are just going to reduce their film offerings to consumer color
> films.  They have seen the light and will simply concentrate on digital
> cameras and accessories.
> 
> Within five years, only those living in a megalopolis will enjoy the
> existence of a local store stocking any analog film materials.  For the
> rest of us, it will be suppliers from some large city, ordered over the
> Internet and delivered by mail.
> 
> I miss the days when I could get a large variety of developers and
> chemicals and films and papers at a photo store two blocks from my office.
> Now, it is all digital, and as Kodak recedes from the analog market, so
> shall they.
> 
> (And I have had nothing but snarls and problems with B&H:  they fouled up
> three orders in a row a decade back, and I swore that I would never again
> do business with them.  But, now, I probably will have no choice ... and I
> will hate myself for going back to drink from a polluted well.)
> 
> Marc
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