"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:59:25 -0600, "Dan J.S." wrote:


"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 06:01:57 GMT, "Calif Bill"
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Konica - Minolta quitting camera business.
http://www.theregister.com/2006/01/1...ts_camera_biz/

interesting. with olympus getting out of the low end digital business
- point and shoot - and concentrating on the high end - dslr -, nikon
stops producing film cameras and canon thinking likewise, its going to
be an interesting year in the camera area.

Who uses film cameras any more?

i do.

In the 1980's I was a supplier to the Konica film processing centers. Was
interesting to see how much film they processed a day. Those small kiosk's
in parking lots where you dropped off your film were picked up and sent to
the "factory". Huge piles of bags of film, processed each day and night. I
guess with the immense decrease in film usage, time to exit. Kodak almost
went toes up, because they misjudged the digital market, and have recovered
extremely well. Overall, tere has to be a decrease in photo paper usage per
person. You now only print the pictures you like, not the 36 on the roll
and hope some are what you wanted. Wife reviews the pics on the digital and
will retake what whe does not like, and erase the bad ones.