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Taking pictures or photos, this is one of my hobby from high school period.
I could get money by working of newspaper delivery every early morning (3 years) & some part-time job on Sunday and holiday. I was a little bit rich student.
So I bought single lens reflex camera (Canon A-1) for taking pictures about daily life and landscapes on travel. I wanted to have this kind of camera since junior high school student.
Of course, it was time for 35mm film (analogue) camera. Not existed of digital one….
It needs continuously costing for..
1) Purchasing film (for 24 shots or 36 shots)
2) Development and printing after taking
3) Wide sized printing (Trimming & printing) if wanted to display
For black & white photographic film, I could make 2) & 3) myself.
For color film especially “positive film”, I had to ask professional laboratory about 2) & 3).
Therefore I never spend any wasting shots on mounted film in the camera. I always checked about composition, exposure and shutter chance for one by one.
Taking black and white photographs, it gave me good practice for having technique and knowledge of taking photos by low cost.
Because I was a member of camera club in the school. I could use the dark room for development & printing, and we shred goods and development solution in the members. So I could take many shots and check photo quality.
The time has been changed from analogue to digital technology.
We can take so many pictures just depending on volume of card media.
And it makes easy display on the PC for checking quality, correction & trimming and printing at the home. It dramatically change of spending cost about abovementioned 1), 2) and 3).
“Change of Technology” makes big change of market and business atmosphere.
I remember from it that” Threat of Substitution of the Porter’s Five forces framework.
Threat of Substitution: Substitution reduces demand for a particular “class” of products as customers switch to the alternatives – even to the extent that this class of products or services become obsolete. ( source: Exploring corporate strategy text and cases by Gerry Johnson & others.)
- Dark room -> Not necessary
- Photographic film -> Card media
- Solution of development -> Software
- Enlarger for printing -> Software
- Printing paper -> Printing paper (change of principle)
- Development & Printing service -> Reducing demand
Any existed products and service will have the same thing.
Anyway, I am keeping to enjoy one of my hobby or taking photos. Just now, it is good for season of autumn.
One more thing, the used photos in the web site were took by me, actually.