Digital BW, The Print

Collectively yes consumers are smart.  MacDonalds isn't the best burger in
the world but a whole lot of people like them - why?

As for backup, this has been discussed ad nausea - take a look through the
archives.  Whether it is digital or analogue one must take care of data.  It
is a lot easier to duplicate and hence "backup" digital data.  That doesn't
mean that people will do it and that those that do will make mistakes but it
is easier to protect digital data.

The digital revolution is making it easier for people to take photos, share
photos, and store photos.  Consumers are abandoning film in droves.  So are
pros - photojournalists, sports photographers, fashion photographers (the
only fashion photographers still doing "editorial" work, the lowest form of
fashion photography, with film are those that can't afford a digital
back)....  The only guys left are the bleeding (or bleeting) "artists".
Film is good but it is a dying product.  It has been largely abandoned by
many commercial environments and is a gasping for breath in others.   I
don't believe it will become extinct - there will likely be those who still
demand it and are prepared to pay for it.  But note my words, the price will
begin to go up....


> From: jnhugo <jacknadelle@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:37:26 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] the contax toast/film thingy
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
> <stevekale@b...> 
> wrote:
>> Now this is really stupid....First of all the consumer marketplace disagrees
>> and has already switched to digital.  This is reflected in sales
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> Oh Yeah-consumers are really smart- this reasoning would make Mcdonalds the
> best 
> hamburger ever made
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>  As for
>> backup, let's not go around that bush again.
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> Luckly Kodak and Fuji are working really hard to create an "experts" group to
> address 
> this problem-what do you think Steve? this issue has been resolved?
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> There will be many who wish
>> their parents had kept their negatives at all, or hadn't kept their
>> negatives in a shoebox and decided to toss them years ago, or wish their
>> parents could afford a camera.
> 
> Yeah-so what? doesn't change the fact..
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