I remember the days before the 1980s and the 1-hour minilab. Back then we dropped our film off at the drugstore in a little envelope and stopped by 3 or 4 days later to retrieve the processed results.
Nobody thought badly of that arrangement. There was no competition from digital cameras either.
It amazes me that people demand instant, immediate photos from their equipment, film or digital but then the pictures go off to a box on a shelf or get lost on a computer hard drive moments later. Thousands and thousands of pictures that never get seen or shared.
Most people I know don't even offload their digital camera pictures from the storage card. Then of course they lament the loss of those pictures when the card is lost, destroyed or inadvertently reformatted.
I actually enjoy the wait between when my photos are taken and I get to see the prints, days or even weeks later. Especially if I get superior results.
With film's decline it should create a market of fewer processors but better processors.
