Will film be banned?

Alan Edward Klein · Jul 8, 2021

Most people I know don't realize that film is still manufactured and asked me where I get it from.

Kodachromeguy · Jul 13, 2021

Pieter12 said:
Film its effectively banned from air travel.

When, where? Has any airline employee or official ever told YOU that you could not take film on your flight? Go ahead, provide some data.

MattKing · Jul 13, 2021

Kodachromeguy said:
When, where? Has any airline employee or official ever told YOU that you could not take film on your flight? Go ahead, provide some data.

That isn't going to happen.
However, with the advent of the new scanners, whether or not film will be damaged by air travel is entirely up to luck.
Thus the "effectively" part of the statement.

Don_ih · Jul 13, 2021

Alan Edward Klein said:
Most people I know don't realize that film is still manufactured and asked me where I get it from.

In spite of the fact that film is still for sale at Walmart....

foc · Jul 13, 2021

Don Heisz said:
In spite of the fact that film is still for sale at Walmart....

I think sometimes it may be that film is not on the people's "radar".
It can be straight in front of them but they don't see it as it has no relevance to them.
They stopped using film 15-20 years ago, like everyone else because they went digital and they heard/were told that film was dead.

I used to regularly have customers tell me "no one prints photos from their phones anymore" yet they were in a queue (line) to use one of the many digital photo order kiosks.

Don_ih · Jul 13, 2021

foc said:
I think sometimes it may be that film is not on the people's "radar".
It can be straight in front of them but they don't see it as it has no relevance to them.
They stopped using film 15-20 years ago, like everyone else because they went digital and they heard/were told that film was dead.

I used to regularly have customers tell me "no one prints photos from their phones anymore" yet they were in a queue (line) to use one of the many digital photo order kiosks.

True. Well, except digital photo kiosks tend to encourage people to keep the photos on their phone - the lack of backlighting makes them disappointed in the prints....

Will film be banned?

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