Fred Harteis editor’snote: I liked this article because it provides current information regarding digital cameras versus film cameras. Anyone with an interest in sales or cameras could benefit from this article.
The photography industry expects U.S.
Unit sales of digital cameras, which use no traditional film and record images on a memory chip, will rise to 20.5 million this year from an estimated 18.2 million in 2004, industry trade group Photo Marketing Association said in its annual photography industry report.
The rapid transition to digital photography has forced many major film makers to shift their business strategy away from film. It also hurt the retail photo developers where most consumers took film to be turned into prints, although use of retail printing is rising.
Many consumers are purchasing their own photo printers. This makes it most convenient for them to print any photos they wish or just save them on their computer for e-mailing. Digital snapshots can be e-mailed, viewed on a computer or television, stored on a computer or deleted. Most are never printed.
Source: Yahoo News
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