Analog film photography and cameras

My LCS (local camera shop) was actually reporting an increase in demand for film last time I was in and were stocking a wider range.

For most of the time I have been going there they have been Ilford only, that last time though they had added Kodak and Fuji and the guy was saying that they now had enough demand to be carrying sheet film in stock for the first time in a very many years.

It seems that as the chains like Jessops and Jacobs etc lose interest in film it's upto the independants to take over supplying the (albeit diminishing) demand and they were very happy to be doing so.

I honestly think film will never die, it's paper that is the most concerning. With film, you can always digitise it if you so wish to. With large format film, unless you could afford a Hasselblad H4D or something, no digital camera in the world could even remotely compare the quality with it, let along all those exciting movements you could play with. So there is always going to be some interest.

When both Kodak and Fuji made a return a couple of year ago with reproducing photo paper, the prices went sky high. A box of 12' x 16' box of 50, for example, went from just under £30 to now £47 pretty much over night. And as a result, a lot of friends, borderline including myself, could no longer afford to spend the money on buying paper.