FID (Film is Dead)

[P. J. Alling]

And why should my anecdotal evidence require more facts than anyone 
else's in this discussion? 

Tom Cakalic wrote:
> Support your first sentence with facts please.
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> Tom C.
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>> From: "P. J. Alling" <webster26 at mindspring.com>
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>> Subject: Re: FID (Film is Dead)
>> Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:30:40 -0400
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>> I don't know tons of young photographers, but those into the craft, use
>> film.  Those who use digital just make "reality TV" with no arr or
>> thought.  It serves them but these are the same people who bought P&S
>> cameras.  I expect that there will always be a market for B&W materials,
>> and as I pointed out, you can make the printing paper in your bathroom,
>> (or something like it, that is the way it was done for 75-80% of the
>> history of what we know as photography).  I will miss  color slides,
>> sometimes I do already.
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>> Tom C wrote:
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>>>> Film not only is, it has been superceded by an alternative technology 
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>>>> has been embraced not only by the professional community, but also by 
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>>>> mainstream user.
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>>>> Film may see a renaissance of sorts, though I doubt it. More likely, 
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>>>> a very few years it will become so financially unworthwhile to 
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>>>> that even the Chinese will give up on making it, and that will be the 
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>> end
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>>>> the line for it.
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>>>> William Robb
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>>> This is the statement I agree with most out of the whole thread. I see 
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>> film
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>>> almost the same as I see vinyl records.  There will be under 1% of the
>>> consumer base that cares about film, even B&W film.  What most people 
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>>> a B&W photo is the absence of color, not the nuances that can be had by
>>> using certain films and processing techniques.  I don't see a film
>>> renaissance either, it's just common sense.
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>>> Shortly the combined income of street sketch and caricature artists will
>>> exceed the income made by film sales and processing.
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>>> Morbid thought... The demise of film will continue to accelerate as 
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>>> who use film kick the bucket, and those who have only used film in their
>>> childhoods couldn't care less about using it in the present or future.
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>>> Tom C.
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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.
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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