But, like
B&W photographic print paper, it is possible to still find some
with enough searching. There don't seem to be any local sources for film
for my still and movie cameras, other than 35mm color.
It's around. Good photo stores still sell it (although there are fewer and
fewer such stores). There are also plenty of mail-order establishments who
sell it.
Last time I looked (which wasn't that long ago), 35mm film cameras,. 120
roll film cameras and 5*4" sheet film cameras were still being made new.
And some of them were not exactly cheap. I suspect anybody who'd bought
one of those would expect to still be able to buy the supplies for it :-)
Of course used film can't be errased and re-used, but old floppies often
can. So the situation for floppies may not be all that bad.
Kodak even announced a new Super-8 movie film earlier
this month.
That does suprise me. I can understand people using 16mm and 35mm cine
film for special purposes. And there are craqy enthusiasts who use
standard-8, I guess. But who uses Super 9?
What annoys me about the floppy disk situation is that
floppies remain the
only really inexpensive and easily reusable medium out there. CD- and
Indeed. They're also the only interchangable storage media I have on most
of my sysstems...
I am seriously wondering how I will transfer large-ish files to other
people in the near future.
-tony