Unless you go back to the days of the box Brownie or Hawkeye, the whole amateur mkt revolved around rapid obsolescense just like it does now in electronics. You just HAD to have some allegedly new film tweak (or relabel) in the endless wars between Fuji, Kodak,
and sometimes Agfa too; and every time you turned around, there was a new model of
35mm camera out with some silly new gadget or program in it. The good new for us is that
by ending much of the redundancy and concentrating on a limited number of really good
pro films, this greatly increases the odds of those particular films surviving profitably to the
mfg. But the long-term appeal of film is really from a quality standpoint, for those who
appreciate hands-on technique, or hopefully, for those of the next generation who will
simply rebel from the monotony of the status-quo.
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Originally Posted by Kodachrome25
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