“In an early-1996 speech to photofinishers during an industry convention, Hans Thieme, president of the Photo Imaging Group of the Agfa division of Bayer Corp., reviewed the incursion of digital cameras into the world of conventional imaging. ‘Although the industry [has recently experienced] an unprecedented slowdown, it was not due to a loss of imaging to these electronic cameras. Consider for a moment that [since 1990] the number of conventional roll films sold worldwide grew from 2.5 billion to approximately 2.8 billion last year—a cumulative growth of almost 10% [although the average number of exposures per roll rose from 23 to 25 during the same period]. From 1990 through 1995, color photographic paper sales jumped from 960 million to almost 1.3 billion—an overall increase of more than 35%. Not exactly an indication that silver-halide was being knocked out of the saddle.’”