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eventually film camera will turn into a niche, but I doubt that it will totally disappear. even today there are people who still practice daguerreotype photography or pinhole camera.

2007-09-07 00:27:37 · answer #1 · answered by dodol 6 · 0 0

At some point in the future its likely film will be gone. I'll be gone long before then so its not a worry to me.

Something to think about, though, is will your descendants have the ability to read the storage medium you have your digital images stored on today? It wasn't all that long ago that the 5 1/4 "floppy" was the standard; then the 3 1/4 "floppy"; then the CD and now the DVD. You can only make so many prints and then what is the permanence of them?

I believe there will be film strip scanners available long into the future so my grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be able to view the images made by me.

2007-09-07 10:06:58 · answer #2 · answered by EDWIN 7 · 0 0

If by film you are talking about 35mm film, perhaps it will be in fact hard to get, but larger format films 4x5, 5x7, 8x10 will definately be available for some time. Current scanning back technologies which can yield 400 megapixel plus ratings and are on par with some larger format films have too many drawbacks and medium format digital photography such as the 39megapixel Hasselblad are just too expensive for the average pro-consumer to get into. If you don't have a lot of disposable income, but you want quality images, you are stuck shooting large or medium format film.
Also, similar to what the last post said, if you want the answer to whether or not film will be around in the future, simply go to alternativephotography.com and you will find a large number of people who are practicing photographic techniques that havent been in popular use for over 150 years.

2007-09-07 08:53:01 · answer #3 · answered by wackywallwalker 5 · 1 0

Yes and no yes for the normal ones and no for the very very good ones still today the newer ones cant do what the top of top film ones can but soon it will be over taken

In Israel(were i live) there was a artical yesterday about a store owner that sells film cameras and he said that nobody even comes in anymoere to look even hes loosing everything

so as u can see people are not buy film pones anymore

2007-09-07 09:47:54 · answer #4 · answered by shlomothewise 2 · 0 0

No. While the market will shrink to very small numbers, film has some very specialized applications which will make it be around for a while.

Eventually, very few people will use film, but there are plenty of cameras out there that still work fine and which are incredible bargains. Those bargains will help to keep film alive for some time.

2007-09-07 09:33:28 · answer #5 · answered by anthony h 7 · 0 0

no, what has happened to all the film processing equipment that used to be here in the USA is that it all went to developing countries, such as India. It is easier to use film there than digital because of the lack of electricity, computers, ETC. Everything goes in cycles. I just took out my 1951 and 1954 Kodak Retina 35MM film cameras (completely manual and NO batteries needed!) and started shooting film again. I hope film use never disappears!

2007-09-07 14:34:02 · answer #6 · answered by Christop 4 · 0 0

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