gdanmitchell wrote: I keep hearing that film is growing in a substantial way. I'd love for those who feel/hope that this is true to give us some evidence other than anecdotes about the film market as a whole.
I'm not going to spend hours researching it, but I think the evidence may be there to be found in resale values of certain types of film equipment that don't have a second life in film kits. I still have a couple of 35mm bodies I didn't sell, and the prices for completed sales of one of those bodies seem to be higher than they were three years ago (the other is collectible and fairly steady). And I'd held back a couple of lenses that I thought had no valid use case adapted to digital due to technological progress, but they're now in a dealer's window listed at two or three times their former value.
Volume of film sold is not a good proxy measure, because professionals always used much more film than amateurs. And these amateurs are almost certainly using their film cameras as secondary systems after their phones.
Dec 23, 2016 at 07:53 PM
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