The trouble I had locating a suburban slide developer in January was unexpected!
I think you may be right! Maybe I have to bring forward the project of installing a Toucam in a camera body!
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Originally Posted by rogerg
Are we right now experiencing the critical point of the demise of film photography?
I personally expected film photography to remain reasonably strong for another 5 years or so, and always have a reasonable presence as people continue to use it for various reasons (be them pro or amateur).
However I have noticed in about the last 4 months a sudden and sharp decline in the availability of film resources:
- Pro labs not selling many pro film's any more leaving limited choice
- Film developers closing up shop making processing inconvenient and harder
- General sudden unavailability of many once common films.
The last few months have really surprised me.
I always assumed & hoped I'd be able to keep using film in a small way, but right now it's looking like it's going to faded to become almost impossible to use in the very short term. There's several things I still miss about film that I don't have in digital, for the same budget.
My partner still uses film and with the recent closures and 'out of stock' situations here in Perth it's looking to me like soon she will be forced to migrate to digital simply because the resources won't be available for film.
Interesting stuff.
I don't think it's necessarily a good thing that the switch to digital has been so strong, quick and all encompassing.
Roger.
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