Re: The demise of film cameras - I don't like it


"Scott W" <biphoto@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> *** R. wrote:
>> I didn't get the whole story on Nikon getting out
>> of the film camera business and focussing on digital,
>> but it's bad news for us film junkies.
>> Ya, everyone has a multi-thousand dollar digital camera
>> with thousands of dollars in lenses, a brand new computer,
>> a photo quality printer, and wants to do their own
>> "processing". Personally, I don't have the time, equipment
>> or inclination for digital. I would rather bring my 35mm
>> photos to a lab for processing.
>>
>> Just observations from an older "gentleman" who has a lot
>> of 35mm cameras that work quite well!
>>
>> *** R.
> Be prepared to see others follow Nikon in dropping their film camera
> lines.
>
> The future of photography is digital. This does not mean that you
> can't continue to use your film cameras and enjoy them but the
> manufacturers in the photographic business are all looking towards
> digital.
>
> 35mm film cameras are going to have an increasingly hard time of it,
> and they are already barely selling now. For those people who shoot
> the normal print film you find in most stores, say Kodak Gold 400, they
> can get better looking prints using a fairly cheap point and shoot
> digital. And they don't need a computer or printer to do it, just
> take the camera to any number of places and get cheap prints done fast.
>
>
> But the point and shoot camera keep getting better each years, in a few
> years even a point and shoot digital will out perform the best 35mm
> film.
>
> There seem to be two types of people in photography, those who really
> hate change and those who like to see things progress. Most of the
> last 30 years have been very good for those people who hate change, the
> next 10 years are going to be very bad from them.
>
> Scott
>
Well, there are also some other reasons why digital photography can be very
nice. I always confined myself to B&W film when I was younger because I did
my own darkroom work, and I frequently took pictures of naked girlfriends,
and I didn't have to worry about some prissy processing labs destroying my
images. Doing my own color processing was way too much trouble for me, and I
never bothered with it. Today, one can take color pictures of anything they
want, and do all the follow up work inside their own computers and not have
to worry about anyone else seeing their stuff. IOW, digital gives one
complete independence from others, even if one wants to work in color. It
isn't cheap, but you can buy a good digital camera, a computer, a good
quality printer, and for perhaps $5000 to $10,000 (depending on the quality
of your lenses) you can do anything you want without worrying about the
tight-lipped American religious nuts getting on your case.....:^)


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