The death of film was a self-fufilling prophesy

1. Stores (big retailers) started looking at their "bottom" lines and stopped buying fresh film.

2. Tens-Billions of millions of new ( to the craft ) shooters came in with minimal "digital only" skills and mindsets.

3. Mechanical SLRs are just too damn hard to master (too tough) for the new breed to learn.

4. Film is too slow……expensive---Hard to learn…no auto-focusing…no easy rewind…expensive…
5.hard to process, “smelly”,
6. Expensive….smelly…