Film is Nearly a Lost Medium

A few months ago Kodak announced that it is shutting down its web service to process film. It is not hard to get film processed, and not hard to buy, but very few people are now purchasing new film cameras. What has been the man reason for this change? I believe that it is that you can share the digital photos with all your friends nearly instantaneously; you can up load them to everyone following you on twitter and facebook from your cell phone. You can be your own darkroom too, with a wide array of imaging software so it is easy to share not just phone-shots, but really nice pictures taken with a good camera. In this section of the blog there will be discussions about using what you have. In 1994 the first digital cameras where available, not very good (1mp was common) with not much color density and pretty pricey (above $300 USD), but feedback was quick, and bad pictures could just be erased, so they cost nothing.  My first memories of a digital camera is the Apple Quicktake that produced 640×480 or  320×240 pixel images with in camera memory only and was priced at a point around $700 USD. But, it was ahead of its time, and it was from apple. There where more expense cameras out there for the pro market from Kodak and a few others, but no one then saw them replacing film cameras.