Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Latent images
From: Martin Howard <mvhoward@mac.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 17:00:41 -0700

Eric Welch wrote:

> For black and white, light strikes the photosensitive material. When it
> does, the energy of the light changes the chemical structure of the 
> silver
> nitrate or whatever it is. And that's how the latent image is created.

This much even I could work out with high school chemistry, physics, 
and five minutes of thinking ;)

My question has to do with *how* "the energy of the light changes the 
chemical structure of the silver nitrate or whatever it is".  Brain's 
links provided a starting point.

M.

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