> > And I agree with you that film will cease to be the basic mode of > image getting very, very soon. One more Christmas gift season and > the jig is up for film. Speaking to a photographic educator at an arts festival last weekend, she said she has recently noticed a resurgence of workers back to the old techniques, like cyanotypes, by those not interested in digital. A feeling I have had for some time is that colour prints will go largely to digital, monochrome will stay largely with darkroom workers (although from recent personal printing experience I am not 100% convinced on this), and slides or transparancies will fade away. Jim Thyer Australia.