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To: re3 who wrote (34559)	11/7/2000 2:01:54 PM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 436258

Don't know. With the advent of digital phographpy, I'm steering clear. DAK

To: re3 who wrote (34559)	11/7/2000 2:09:05 PM
From: pater tenebrarum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

an important thing to note about photographic silver demand is btw. that if you segment it, you find the biggest single source of demand comes from radiology. that is not going to dry up anytime soon...i just mention it because we get frequent speculations on the future of photographic demand. do the users have their heads in the sand? you bet they do. after 20 years of flat prices what would you expect? are the roughly 1,5 bn. oz. that are sold short a sign of heads in the sand? i'd say so, especially as the primary producers of silver themselves continually point out that the inventory situation is getting dangerously tight - so it's not as if no-one had issued warnings. the situation is in many ways reminiscent of the lows in crude oil in early '99...only that it's even more extreme, like a powder keg imo. note btw, if you look at VERY long term commodity charts, you will notice that the longer a price stays at too low a level , in a tight non-volatile price band, the bigger and more enduring the rally becomes once that price band is broken to the upside. most recent example for this is palladium.