I have also wondered about KEH's long term health... maybe even shorter
term health. Amateurs have been stampeding to digital because... I'm
not sure why. Certainly not based on a considered cost comparison. I
think wedding and portrait photographers have been on a stampede to
digital at least, in part, because of the simplicity of retouching. I
don't know if landscape, architectural and other types of photographers
have been so anxious to move there.
But maybe it doesn't make much difference. It may be that the medium
and large format types who can't move so readily to digital only
constitute 10% of the business. And who knows? They may not be far
behind given the technology path of the next few years.
Chuck Norcutt
ScottGee1 wrote:
> Side note: I wonder about KEH's long term health. They're holding a
> LOT of analog gear that they bought at relatively high prices that
> will never return the $$ they expected. Perhaps King's pockets are
> deep enough to offset the difference, but I it'll be interesting to
> see what happens over the next few years.
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