Death of Film based imaging perhaps overstated?

On 30-Oct-04, at 10:38 AM, Robert A Szkolnicki wrote:

> If we all continue to run around like headless chickens, then all the
> worst case senarios will happen. We will have made it happen
> ourselves, let's stop wringing our hands and weeping into our
> keyboards, and get out and take photographs in whichever way we enjoy
> most, and film and digital will continue to exist for a long time to
> come!! Then we can start to worry about what is waiting around the
> corner waiting to replace both of them. 8-))
> John R

think about how long 8X10 cameras have been rendered obsolete yet still
some artists use them extensively?... Think of all those wacky old
cameras from yesteryear that people dust off and play with.

I think film based cameras will be just another choice we make in the
years to come. think about this,... as far as we've come in digital,
the popularity of the Holga, the lomo, etc has never been better and in
fact I think continues to grow! my friend Bruce who manages
Photocentral has seen it already with the generation of shooters after
us discovering the darkroom.

The same thing happened in the late 60's-70's when shooters discovered
alternative processes. Suddenly every hippy-shooter was sticking it to
"the Man" (aka Kodak!) and making their own chemicals and coating their
own paper. That kind of trend will appear. That's why I am holding on
to things, rather than sell. Even shooting one roll of film for Naked
in the Exchange was a great reminder of everything mysterious about
shooting film.