Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:48 AM 8/24/1999 EDT, Charlie Trentelman wrote: >Ektachrome, Agfa and so forth are a simpler process stolen from Germany's >Agfa company during World War II (spoils of war) that involves dyes that are >in the film when it is made and activated by the various layers being exposed >to light. It is a simpler process, able to be done in a local lab for less >bux, so the local lab can turn E6 around in two hours. I would object both to the history here and to your characterization of any technological taking as "theft". The US, UK, USSR, and France, and the other Allies, were given carte blanche to take German technology as war booty. It was not "theft": it was a simple taking, precisely in the same way that the German acquisition of the Skoda arms works in 1938 was not theft, but the outflowing of Tiso's cowardice. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!