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If you wait long enough, the prices will fall again as people realize how much of a pain they are to use.
Let's extend this discussion to Hasselblad V system cameras. Have any of you followed the way the prices of backs, 80mm, and 100mm lenses are going? Amazing. And clean Acute Matte screens can be close to $500 now. Fortunately here in USA, Sinar Bron in New Jersey still accepts the V stuff for maintenance and repair.
Or they associated computers with their job and wanted to switch off for their hobby.
This isn't "inflation"...it's demographics.
Office-slave boomers started to retire around a decade ago.
If they were still married, with or without children, gay or straight, they wanted to hide out in darkrooms. That created sudden demand.
The people who wanted darkroom equipment simply didn't know how good scanners and inkjet printers had gotten...the people who knew that were pros or (like me) former pros.
Pros were mostly digital by 2000.
Exactly this. My interest in photography is absolutely film based. I have no doubt as to how well (perhaps even better!) digital images can be produced compared to my analog workflow. But I work with computers all day, every day and the last thing I want is to sit in front of one when I want to enjoy my hobby!Or they associated computers with their job and wanted to switch off for their hobby.
Exactly this. My interest in photography is absolutely film based. I have no doubt as to how well (perhaps even better!) digital images can be produced compared to my analog workflow. But I work with computers all day, every day and the last thing I want is to sit in front of one when I want to enjoy my hobby!
Yes this unfortunately applies to all of photography supplies new and used , for example Kodak film prices ,processing chemicals and cameras , this probably due to the sudden popularity of analog photography in recent years
I remember getting my Kaiser color enlarger with the base NEW from the dealer back in 2002 for almost 600$ and now it cost new almost 1500$And I remember moaning about rising prices just 9 or 10 years ago!!
I read that peak enlarger (new) sales was 1980. I think for an earlier generation having hobbies involving craft work with hands was really important and perhaps a hangover from a make-do, self-sufficient mentality during WWII. The whole rediscovery of craft work, espeically as it involves young people is really interesting. From a neoliberal economic perspective; why would you grow a carrot when you could use that time more efficiently to work more and buy carrots grown by a professional? It's interesting to me to see how two worlds of justification are clashing here.
I remember getting my Kaiser color enlarger with the base NEW from the dealer back in 2002 for almost 600$ and now it cost new almost 1500$
The thing that I noticed is the price of the semi/full automatic processors ,which was and still expensive ,unless you were lucky and got one for cheap .
Very good points. My dad (WWII vet) loved making stuff and tinkering. Honestly, he wasn't very good at it, but he seemed to enjoy his projects. That continued on to a degree in my generation (boomers) but it's been quite lost on the generations after, IMO. I don't know what is "neoliberal economics" about Millennials wanting to grow the carrot instead of buying one from a professional carrot producer. I see it as a shift in consumer tastes, as a culture we went too far into "do it for me," and now we are seeing a reaction. A welcome one in my opinion. My wife and I always had a tiny urban farm going on while the kids were growing up for our own enjoyment. It is gratifying to see our adult kids now starting to enjoy the satisfaction of "making" with their own gardens (though none of them have shown much interest in analog photography to my slight disappointment).I read that peak enlarger (new) sales was 1980. I think for an earlier generation having hobbies involving craft work with hands was really important and perhaps a hangover from a make-do, self-sufficient mentality during WWII. The whole rediscovery of craft work, especially as it involves young people is really interesting. From a neoliberal economic perspective; why would you grow a carrot when you could use that time more efficiently to work more and buy carrots grown by a professional? It's interesting to me to see how two worlds of justification are clashing here.
Any economic activity that relies on advertising is going to be in a hurting position for awhile. I think you're right about making the shift now.
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