The most surprising news this week was that Konica-Minolta was going to get out of the camera business. Not just digital camera business, but all camera business. The digital camera section of Minolta apparently is going to be sold to Sony. Earlier this month, Nikon announced to stop production of 35mm cameras, to focus on production of digital cameras only.
Imagine 10 years ago: the heydays of 35 mm cameras and One-Hour photo stores. In another couple years, there won’t be any business left for those stores: why go to Walmart, Superstore or Sobeys to have your photos printed while you could do this at home with your 4800 x 2800 pixel high resolution photo printer?