[rollei_list] Re: Peter K. and The Survivability of Film

  • From: "Peter K." <peterk727@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 18:07:46 -0800

You are dreaming in technicolor. I bet you think people still use 8mm movie
cameras. Marc, they are not even using video tape any more. Its solid state
memory.
Oh you can buy it, but the market is very very small. So 100 years from now
they will not even know the word film. It will be like these days if you are
looking for a Victrola. Although I am sure someone on "this list" uses one.
:-)

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Peter
>
> With all respect, film is going to survive for a hundred years or more.
>  Sources will be restricted.  Processing plants ill be restricted.  But it
> will survive.  Kodachrome is clearly doomed, but E-6, C-41, and
> schwarz-weiss emulsions will continue for our lifetimes and a lot more, and
> I am only 59, and we folks only die of terminal nastiness in our 80's.  So I
> have a good quarter-century  or more to go, and, yes, I am planning on
> continuing to use film during this time.  I am surprised that you seem to
> believe that film is evaporating from the marketplace.  It is not. I would
> agree with you if you had stated that it would become a niche product and
> that little further research is being done on improving films and chemistry
> and papers.  That all seems very clear.
>
> But you seem to be suggesting that by, say, 15 AUG 2009, film will be NLA.
>  I find that position absurd.  Film and papers and chemistry will continue
> to be available for centuries.  Shucks, you really are not plugged-in very
> well, Peter.  There are still folks out there doing Daguerrotypes (sp?).  Go
> figure.  Us analogue Luddies will be around for your lifetime.
>
> Digital still cannot match the quality of film.  At some point, it will do
> so, an that might shift my calculus a bit.  I doubt that this will occur in
> my lifetime but, then, what do I know?
>
> I'm not fighting with you.  But, pray bear in mind that digital is not the
> answer to everything. Some of us are comfortable with film as, as long as
> the market remains decent, film, paper, and chemistry will stick around.
>  Enough for my lifetime and, I expect, my son's as well.  Beyond that?  Ich
> weisse ist nicht, a Stuttgart phrase.
>
> Best,
>
> Marc
>
>
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
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Peter K
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