As far as growth, marketing, and sales efforts are concerned, you're right.
But film will be here for many, many years to come, it will just continue
to get pigeonholed to a niche market with the P&S's, disposables, die-hard
amatuers, and people who don't want to drop $$$ on all the goodies
necessary to do digital "right". That will keep the industry alive for a
long time and peacefully coexisting with digital.
The big question is how long will it take for the CCD to die or be
relegated to the low-end market and for CMOS and the Foveon X3/other
multi-layer sensors taking the high ground.
Skip
Original Message:
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From: Winsor Crosby wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:12:20 -0800
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Digital Earnings
Forget film cameras.
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Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
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