Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] environmental awareness
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 17:10:49 -0700

Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> 
> > Every time I hear numbers like this, I cringe.  Is somebody recycling
> > the 99.9% of photographs that are not used?  What happens to all the
> > rejects? Particularly when silver is involved.
> 
> Don't know about the unused photographs, but when I was in the
> photofinishing business we used to collect the waste silver from the
> exhausted chemistry and sell it to a metals recycler. There was a good
> return in doing that.
> 
> Godfrey

Extreme editing is a reality of roll film. The excellence of the one image is
such because of it. The other images can be thought of as rehearsals for that
(let me think of a word) "Decisive" image!
Mark Rabiner