Digital BW, The Print

One other thing in my favor when I started selling Bodine.  Everyone and their uncle had a digital camera and all these folks were shooting color.  So, therefore, according to my retailers, Black and White was "new" again.

There is a reflection of this in the Instagram filters that provide sepia and other b&w effects.

And even after 12 years, Black and White is still desirable.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Tony Sleep <TonySleep@...> wrote:
>
> On 19/02/2013 12:09, David Whistance wrote:
> > I was going to reply before but held off, however if you look through your
> > analysis I think you will find that you have the maths wrong - you seem to
> > be allowing $5 per print whilst his actual print prices are considerably
> > higher than that, from 4 to 20 times from memory. Depending on the ratio
> > of large to small prints sold that will make a significant difference to
> > his bottom line.
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> That's me making a silly mistake then. I did assume a median price of $50 
> per print, but somehow lost a zero.
> 
> 30,000 * $50 is of course $1,500,000. Not $150,000 as I wrote.
> 
> T/o of $125,000 year then, and overheads would likely be less than the 40% 
> I assumed, with that kind of volume.
> 
> So I am impressed, and fascinated that this is (still) possible. That's a 
> probable profit ~GBP 60k, which would be firmly in the top few percentile 
> for income among UK pro's. 
> http://www.british-photographic-council.org/survey/2010
> 
> My apologies to all for the misdirection.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards
> 
> Tony Sleep
> http://tonysleep.co.uk
>