Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What's more work for Dad? Why is a digital camera "more work for Dad?:~" Don't you get it - you can get commercial prints from your digital camera...you don't need to do your own downloading and printing. No one says you have to like it, but this idea that digital is new century's version of APS or 8-track tapes isn't laughable - it's down right moronic. Digital is here to stay - and, unfortunately or not, it's here to stay as the dominent capture medium in photography. My God, we're how many short years into this revolution and digital had 50 percent of the new camera market? And what percentage of that other 50 percent was disposable cameras, rather than 'real cameras?' - -----Original Message----- From: Afterswift@aol.com Sent: Sep 25, 2003 7:52 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Kodak Focus on Digital 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 - --------------------------------------------------------- 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html