Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/14

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Subject: [Leica] Analog v. Digital
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr)
Date: Wed Jul 14 13:21:57 2004
 
"B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote:

> I know, Ken, I know. But as I said, digital smidgital - it's electronic
> capture v film capture. :-)

Purely out of a desire to be a pain in the rear, I must ask if film capture 
is also electronic.  What happens to a silver halide crystal when a photon 
hits it - are electrons displaced to form the latent image?


Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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