Digital BW, The Print

Hi Tom,

Yep, sad but true. My method is this: buy and shoot as much of those
materials as possible. Keep the demand up and the product will be made.

Jon

> What's next?  Anything that doesn't produce the board's/stockholders profit
> expectations.  I expect that you and I, as b&w people, don't contribute enough
> to meet those profit expectations. I would not be surprised to see the big
> film companies drop almost all b&w except the Porta type b&w's that can be
> process/printed using color equipment.  And, even that won't last much past
> the point where the film processors digitize everything before printing.  At
> that point, if you want b&w, just say so.  They'll hit the b&w button before
> the high speed inkjet (or whatever) printer prints your image.
> 
> Tom Baker
> 
> Mark Hahn <markhahn2000@...> wrote:
> agfa just canceled APX100 in 4x5 (ie. abandoned LF)... gotta wonder
> what's next.
> 
> mark
> 
> ...
>>> The age of medium and large format camera gave us
>>> some interesting image.
>> 
>> Some people still use MF and LF cameras.  They aren't exactly museum
>> pieces yet.