Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Kodak Focus on Digital
From: Allen Graves <ahgraves@prodigy.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:37:10 -0500
References: <5b.3ee3b939.2ca4a981@aol.com>

The company is Applied Science Fiction ( web site was www.asf.com) 
and they had a dry film development process which allowed digital 
imaging from film, but I believed it "destroyed" the film, so far as 
using it for a traditional negative is concerned. They also made some 
wonderful Photoshop plugins which Kodak is still producing.

Allen


>In a message dated 9/25/03 1:23:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>telyt@earthlink.net writes:
>
>>  > A couple of years ago there was a company ? SiliconFilm ? that was
>>   > trying to develop a digital film cartridge that would replace the real
>>   > film cartridge.
>> 
>>   It was vaporware.  No working prototypes or test mules.  Zip.  None.  Most
>>  of what Siliconfilm did was try to attact money from naive investors.
>---------------------------------------------
>I recall reading some months ago that Kodak bought an outfit that figured out
>how to read undeveloped film digitally. I don't know where Kodak went with
>it.
>
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