Digital BW, The Print

Steve Kale writes:

> Now let me see...in Europe (including Eastern Europe), the bulk of Asia, the
> Americas (North at least), and Australasia, at a minimum, the trend away
> from 35mm film is very very strong.

The bulk of Asia?  Where, exactly?  People in India are spending a
year's wages on digital cameras?  And ten years' wages the PCs they need
to use them?

> Cheaper but not cheap.  You need an economics lesson ol' son.

Compared to making chips, making film is dirt cheap.  Producing film
isn't much more complicated than producing garbage bags.  Producing
chips is about as complicated as producing spaceships.