Re: Demise of film

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Wayne D wrote:

> Using paper negatives???????
>

That would be one way, but if nobody's making photographic paper.... For
the first 50 years or so after photography was invented workers had to
make their own materials. Nothing stopping us from doing the same thing
now. Indeed, and we have 150+ years of research into, among other things,
photo sensitive materials to draw from. What's everybody afraid of.

-greg

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Schmitz" <gws1@columbia.edu>
> To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 7:54 AM
> Subject: Re: Demise of film
>
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>>
>> Really???
>>
>> This is the alt-photo list - does it really matter if they stop making
>> whatever? I'll still be able to make pictures as long as I can buy paper
>> and chemicals.
>>
>> -greg schmitz <gws1@columbia.edu>
>>
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>> On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, davidhatton@superonline.com wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Just saw BBC NEWS24. Dixons, quite a large chain of stores here in the
> UK
>>> have announced that film cameras are finished. When current stocks of
>>> film based cameras are sold, they will cease their retail and sell only
>>> digital. The dominos are falling,
>>>
>>> http://dsgportal01.dixons.co.uk/wps/portal/dixons.media.latestnews
>>>
>>> tells the story
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> David H
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Received on Mon Aug 8 08:18:50 2005