Film-based Photography is Dying.
http://theonlinephotographer.blogspot.com/
2007/03/film-is-dead.html
"The Online Photographer is relieved to report that film continues to go downhill. Soon it will be widely unavailable,and everyone will be shooting digital, as they should. Film is inconvenient and, what's worse, old-fashioned.
We all should get with the fashions!
Printed books are going downhill, too. Many texts can now be found online, and there will be less and less need for bulky paper versions. Some libraries are "guillotining" rare old books—chopping off the spine, scanning the pages, and then throwing the pages away. No longer needed. Sounds modern. Good for them.
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few people want to trouble themselves with platinum/palladium prints, dye transfer, or other alternative processes. If people were still doing such work then the rest of us might have to look at it. No, that's all gone the way of the Dodo, not to mention the way of copperplate etching, stone lithography, woodcut, and other obsolete, antiquated methods of image reproduction. Good riddance..."
Notification of Polaroid Instant Film Availability
http://www.polaroid.com/ifilm/en/index.html
Due to marketplace conditions, Polaroid has discontinued almost all of its instant analog hardware products. Polaroid has also made the difficult decision to cease manufacturing of instant film products in 2008