Digital cameras outsell film cameras 15 to 1...

....at least at one "local shop". More food for thought:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4130620.stm

I wonder how one recent poster's "local shop" is escaping the rest of
the real world? I want that secret.

 

Not really. Film is slowly going away. Sure some brand new film
cameras were released last year but there are less companies willing
to make and sell film and some companies just trashing their film
camera-making business.

But film will only really be "dead" when this last crop of film users
dies out. If I had to guess I would put it at 50 years or so from now,
unless the process of *making* film is something a small home-grown
company can do.

 

Don't bet on that - at least not in the sense of film only dying
when its current crop of users themselves die. After all, almost
everyone who bought his or her first digicam in the past five years -
which probably means most digicam owners - had previously taken a lot
of film photos.

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It will, unless making film is something that is, somehow, still
profitable for the film-making companies. Once it goes past a certain
threshhold, expect all but a few of them halting production.

 

Then explain this to me, Why is it possible that I can still buy Super 8
film?

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/super8/index.jhtml?id=0.1.4.4.10&lc=en

Death of film.... Yeh Sure.... (sarcasm)

It's like saying the advent of digital graphics will be the death of oil
paint and canvas...

Digital cameras will follow the same marketing/sales curve as all new
products have since the beginning of market research. Someday the market
will saturate and sales will plateau. Same as TV's, CD players, electric
garage doors, etc etc etc......

Sure, a big chunk of the film market is going away. But to proclaim the
death of film? I would have your crystal ball sent in for a tune up!

 

oh crap! I'd better race down and grab some paints and canvas
quick!!!!!! Thanks for the heads up!

 

I'm just saying that the handwriting really IS on the wall for film.
When a Super 8 movie camera that sold new for $200-300 now gets about
$20 on eBay, that says a lot about how many people are even interested
in Super 8 any more. Just expect film to get - increasingly - harder
to find, in fewer varieties, and to become more and more a pro item.

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Exactly, and as less people make it - it'll get more expensive.
Eventually, no new people are going to be using it - it'll all be the
old-timers who are used to film and know how to use it well.

 

You should respond to my original post instead of a sentence quoted in
someone else response to me.

 

Well, I checked the link for Super 8 film and found no mention of
price. That should be the discussion here. How much will film
eventually cost. When the price becomes such that it's no longer
practical to buy film, you'll have your "death of film". As regards
depending on Kodak for a supply of Super 8 film for the long term, you
might want to seek out an alternative:

http://home.businesswire.com/portal...d=news_view&newsId=20050721005706&newsLang=en

 

Film is likely to die. Unlike vinyl records, you can't produce it
with cheap equipment. There will be no "small firms" to keep it going.
-Rich


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Film is definitely more pleasing to the eye than digital, if film dies it
will be a limiting factor and photography will be the loser.

 

Opinion alert!!

First, let me say that I really don't care what others shoot with. If
you like film, you should have it. That being said, I don't think
you're going to have your way. I just can't see a market for film as
digital continues to improve.

 

Nothing more than opinion stated as fact.

 

Film *is* more pleasing in every way, colour, saturation, sharpness,
everything. I use digital out of necessity and convenience but I still
prefer film.

 

It's a fact that I prefer film to digital, maybe in the future the facts
will alter but not yet.

 

But it's true, nonetheless.

 

Hey, I am on you side on this one but you should say, "More pleasing to my
eye" Pleasing is an objective thing.. Not everybody is pleased by the same
thing.

But I still remain, The death of film is not even worth talking about. I
don't understand why people form such biased opinions about this topic.

Only now are they begining to bring medium format digitals to market. Can
you Imagine what a 4X5 will cost. They may never build one.

Hasselblad H1D $22,000.00

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/con...s&kw=HAH1D&is=REG&Q=&O=productlist&sku=383280

That's alot of film.................

 

Yup. Phase One's model is ~20k too.

On a related note, how much does film cost for a "regular" Hasselblad?

 

$90 for 50 Sheet for 4 X 5 Just check out BH Photo. There are alot of
varieties