From: Richard M. Koolish (koolish@bbn.com)
Date: 12/28/01-09:42:28 AM Z
> This doesn't dispute your contention that film/developer combinations
> are designed from the beginning, but Applied Science Fiction, the
> company that created the Digital ICE scanning software, has designed
> a machine that can develop film without a chemical developer. The
> call it aptly enough a 'dry film process'. Basically the film is
> scanned by the machine and output to a CD or other digital media
> without ever creating a negative.
>
> Just thought it was interesting. The web page about this technology is at:
>
> http://www.appliedsciencefiction.com/products/pic/
>
> Philip
They do use a chemical developer. See the web page.
"In the Digital PIC process, micro-amounts of a proprietary developing agent
are applied to a roll of exposed but undeveloped film as it is fed through the
processor's image-capture engine. ....."
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