I agree with Greg. No doubt we'll see "coating your own bromide
emulsion" workshops in the near future.
With all the excitement that digital has brought to the medium, there's
a tendency to overlook the brilliant chemists and physicists who
delivered such amazing image quality during the "classic" era of
photography. To me at lease, measuring electricity across a
photo-receptor seems much simpler than the daunting task of coating
multiple layers of silver salts on acetate to replicate the colors
around us.
Just my $0.02
Dan
Greg Schmitz wrote on 8/8/05, 9:18 AM:
> 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.
Received on Mon Aug 8 08:51:05 2005
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