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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Kodak Focus on Digital
From: Afterswift@aol.com
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 19:52:41 EDT

In a message dated 9/25/03 4:39:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
ahgraves@prodigy.net writes:

> 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
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Even if the film lost its negative capacity, the ASF technology -- if 
successful -- would invade digital imaging, and Kodak would make money selling film. 
What is even more interesting is that printing would follow the same 
commercial procedure. You would drop off a roll of film at a pick up dealer and get 
back prints, but without negs. Most folks would go for that. In effect, a film 
camera is used to produce a positive file and the print that goes along with it. 
What do you need a digital camera for? It's more work for dad. I wonder what 
Kodak did with that technology?

br  
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