Jeremy wrote:


But the floor space that is currently dedicated to one-hour film developing
will probably be gone. They might offer to send film out for processing
off-site, but I doubt that most retail locations will continue to maintain
the equipment and handle the chemicals as they do now. Making digital
prints will be much easier for them, because the process can be handled
without the need for trained employees and can be done in a smaller space,
like that used by the Kodak kiosk.



Probably not. The latest machines are all in one chemical development of
film with auto-scan of the negs, which are then printed digitally using
RA-4 paper process (chemical).

Untouched by human hands.

Roll of film goes in one end; prints & negatives come out the other. If
you bring in a digital file to print, it just gets inserted into the middle.

There's really no chemicals to handle, they're pre-packaged & you just
plug them in., same as with paper.