matt_saunier

You silly people, film will always endure. How many beta cassettes

do you see anymore? There might be a few, stuck underneath the

Super8 reels of the world. And who wants their wedding pictures on

Photo CD? B&W in particular will never go away, and is even today

blossoming from all the new emulsions out. Let's face it, if Kodak's

only concern was popular demand, B&W would have gone away in the

80's. For every one professional photographer out there who develops

his Tri-x in a Jobo, there are probably 500 civilians who develop

their Max 100 at Wal-Mart. And don't gripe about some chem or

another going away, off the top of my head I can name 9 or 10

different Kodak developers that have been around since the Ice Age.

Besides, if you really need to get that perfect push-processed,

solarized B&W reversal, you could actually mix it yourself as we all

had to do in the ELDER DAYS. Remember the ELDER DAYS anybody? Or you

could stop being eliteist and reach for that bottle of Ilford or

Agfa or BloggsCo or whatever... Anyways I am through ranting now.

35mm forever!

Kodak may have brought the world APS and Disc, but don't forget,

they also brought the world *photography*. Although I did like them

better in the days when the film boxes looked like they came from

the checker cab company :) Especially the Panatomic-X and Verichrome

NOT Pan.