Editorial

Staff · Issue 52, Jan/Feb 2010 · pp. 4

Editorial First of all, Seasons Greetings to you all and best wishes for 2010. The end of this year marks the end of the first decade of the 21st century and the rate of change since 2000 has been nothing short of meteoric. Ten years ago digital photography was in its infancy, UwP hadn’t even been born and traditional film stock was still the market leader yet, as is so typical in todays ever increasing pace, the decline in demand for film took the industry by surprise and saw the collapse of fundamental brands such as Ilford and to a certain extent, Polaroid. Fast forward to the end of the decade and Kodachrome had gone and new models of digital cameras were appearing almost monthly. The transition was complete, irreversible and, with the benefit of hindsight, inevitable. Progress came in leaps and bounds and it is only by looking back that we can see how far we have come. No more 36 ex…