From: Richard Knoppow (dickburk@ix.netcom.com)
Date: 07/18/02-03:15:20 PM Z
At 12:54 PM 07/18/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>
>I'm pretty sure that the modern gelatin in photographic use today does not
>use animal substances. Maybe someone else on this list that's better
>informed can tell us.
>
Its the same old stuff, gotten from animal hides and bones. Some modern
films use a mixture of Gelatin and synthetic polymers. I don't think any
emulsion is yet made completely of synthetic polymer.
Natural gelatin has some properties which are very hard to duplicate.
---- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA dickburk@ix.netcom.com
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