Nikon Suicide or Not?

[Skatterball]

Film returning 10 years? Not a chance it will ever be anymore that a novelty item, if that. It would be like going back to horse & buggy for transportation. Plus, what industry would support it with processing, equipment for the do-it-yourselfer and so on?

Vinyl records, now that is a medium that is sustaining itself on a small scale because audiophiles are willing to spend thousands of dollars on expensive analogue hardware.

 

[Skatterball]

Time to open a Photomat franchise anyone?

 

[Skatterball]

In what I believe to be the spirit of DPR, any discussion about Photography, digital or otherwise, is suitable for the Open Forum.

Any other interpretation, in my opinion, is too narrow to be useful.

 

[MoreorLess]

003tvd wrote:

Film is now a niche product. Yes, many of us still remember the romance of seeing the image magically appear on silver halide paper, or the excitement of opening that envelope to see the images for the first time, unlike now, where the print is a somewhat anticlimactic step in the chain of creating an image. The earlier car and watch analogies are appreciated, however I think it might be more of a Walkman-to-Diskman-to-Ipod series of stages, which make looking back more of a view into our technological evolution, rather than a practical comparison between current technologies du jour. Because it's a niche, Polaroid SX-70 has been somewhat revived, but at around $50US a pack, it's not going to regain mass appeal. Our wallets have spoken.

To be fair I think Instax has quietly been becoming a bit more than a niche, the 210 for example is at #55 on Amazon's sales chart, no doubt helped by the film being much cheaper than the impossible project.