FID (Film is Dead)

[P. J. Alling]

Actually, one reason that labs are folding is that even the crappiest 
digital camera equals the quality you get from most labs, because 
they're crappy too. 

Mark Roberts wrote:
> japilado at pacifier.com wrote:
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>> Since when is it necessary for a film photographer to take lots of
>> pictures?   I went out today and took pictures using a Stereo Realist
>> camera.  I did one roll.  I was deliberate in my stereo photography so 
>>     
> get
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>> the best effect.  Sorry I won't make my local film processor happy by 
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> not
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>> taking lots and lots of pictures.
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> The *reason* labs are folding faster than rice paper at an origami 
> contest is because even the "film is NOT dead" people aren't shooting 
> enough of it. If film really wasn't dead you would be bragging about 
> how *many* rolls you shoot, not how few.
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-- 
The difference between Microsoft and 'Jurassic Park':
In one, a mad businessman makes a lot of money with beasts that should be extinct.
The other is a film.
  -- Unattributed