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by nradov 809 days ago
There is still a lot of business opportunity in supplying image sensors and lenses to smartphones.
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But it is nowhere near as profitable as the 35mm film system was.
The 35mm system was a huge consumables business down through the food chain. That basically doesn't exist with digital. (Aside from ink jet supplies and I'm not sure how true even that is any longer.)