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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Nor California & Pac NW
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Film supplies and chemicals are pretty low tech. The lines to make the emulsion are fully depreciated, they get bought, moved to low-cost countries, operations scaled down to the current market size, and selling a roll of film for $5 is pretty darned profitable. Ilford, FujiFilm, Kodak (the film business), Lomography are all profitable.
The equipment - cameras, lenses, etc - is in essentially endless supply.
As long as there is a solid niche of demand, there will be film and the means to make art with it.
Remember how record players and tube amplifiers were going to disappear?
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