Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Digital Dry film process??
From: "onetreehillclw" <onetreehillclw@compaq.net>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 07:39:33 -0500
References: <LPBBLMODPGDGLIJJINOAMEGDEAAA.brian@imagespace.co.uk>

Nope, Kodak and Hewlett Packard want to start making
machines that use dry process. The problem is you don't get negatives since
the film is destroyed in dry process. What
a load of crap!! I'll still use those wet chemicals thank you.

Chris Williams


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian McCarthy" <brian@imagespace.co.uk>
To: "Leica Users" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 3:26 AM
Subject: [Leica] Digital Dry film process??


> The following is from the British Journal of Photography. Is this one of
> those things you read about once and never hear anything about it ever
> again?
>
> from bjp:-------------------------
> Applied Science Fiction, the Texas-based developer of digital imaging
> technologies, has received an estimated £38 million of capital in its
> latest round of venture funding. The company, which supplies image
> enhancement software to scanner manufacturers such as Acer, Minolta and
> Nikon, is currently developing a revolutionary digital film processing
> technology (BJP, 29 March 2000). In an exclusive test for BJP, ASF
> demonstrated at photokina that its new process allows digital images to
> be taken from exposed but unprocessed film (BJP, 18 October 2000).  The
> latest round of private investment, which attracted IBM among the
> backers, is thought to take ASF's total funds raised to around £62
> million. If the digital dry film process proves successful, it could
> change the face of the lab industry: according to reports, liquid
> pollutants and fumes are reduced, allowing kiosks to be placed almost
> anywhere.
> ---------------------------------------
>
> Brian McCarthy
> brian@imagespace.co.uk
> www.imagespace.co.uk
>

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