Kodak Discontinues 35mm Color Negative film

so I am told by the people of Adorama.
Still make slide film and b&w.
It would be interesting if only black and white film survives in the end.
Easier to sell the concept"well I only shoot b&w!"

>the sheer ease, speed and lack of fuss involved in taking photographs on a purely mechanical film camera is where it's appeal lies. ...TIME that it seems to take all of the digital photographers that I have ever observed at work to actually take the shot!
Umm, sorry, but you do not get it, perhaps due to lack of DSLR experience. DSLR is much, much faster than any purely mechanical film camera - by perhaps an order of magnitude.
And IMO "the sheer ease, speed and lack of fuss involved in taking photographs" is much easier when ISO and white balance are selected in 3 seconds via dial rather than months ahead when one orders from B&H and again when loading the next 37 frames into the camera far in advance of knowing what actual scene conditions will be.
I can walk out to my Yukon right now, pick up a DSLR and photo
i anything, any lighting
with less than 5 seconds prep time and with 5 seconds review know 100% that a competent 16x20 capable pic is in the can. That is "sheer ease, speed and lack of fuss involved in taking photographs," not first finding the right film, allowing it to warm, loading a roll, manually metering or guessing the light and then waiting days to see what terrors the lab inflicts on your shot film. And we have not even mentioned the joys of scanning...
The chimping a pro does is fast; e.g. doing in 5 seconds what you would do with Polaroid; or verifying difficult focus, checking highlights, subject expressions, subject/camera movement; things impossible with film. And, much of the chimping that you observe is simply photogs immediately reviewing their pix for the sheer pleasure of the pix (something denied to film photogs).
I would observe that "98% batting average" must only refer to static pix with no movement or critters (especially groups) involved.
Note: "photo anything" in 5 seconds assumes reasonable available light but includes pix needing moderate flash assist. Shooting both with and without flash fill adds another 5 seconds... :)

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