On 7/05/2013 5:06 p.m., RichA wrote:
On May 6, 9:04 pm, Me wrote:
An interesting interview on Radio New Zealand this morning, with Robert
Burley:
Toronto-based photographer whose book The Disappearance of Darkness:
Photography at the End of the Analogue Era chronicles the rapid speed at
which film and the huge factories that produced it have almost vanished.
Link to MP3 file:http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/ntn/ntn...ure_guest_-_ro...

Film is destined for a small but enthusiastic audience of geeky niche
players, just like vinyl. Now, vinyl though still a fraction of sales
of CD's and electronic downloads is growing, but represents only about
a $70M market in the U.S. Can the film producers (who would also have
to offer processing or production of chemicals to do it) make a
business of film, whats left of it and can they survive while film
continues to fall further?
Film is where vinyl was around 1985, still dying before its slow rise
again.

I think that was discussed in the podcast. It's relatively inexpensive
to set up to press vinyl records.
Not so to set up to produce and process photographic film (except
monochrome). When the market was massive - there were only a few players
in that game.