RE: Demise of film

DEAR DAN & AL.,
        As I mentioned in an earlier e-mail, while there is a market, there will be
a supplier. I cited a number of smaller manufacturers who are moving in to
take over from the "Big Boys". Also, there are some manufacturers who are
now marketing "fine art" silver gelatin paper under their own names
(Kentmere) when, in the past, they supplied for bigger brand names.
        Silver gelatin ain't dead yet. It will be used by fine art photographers
and supplied by smaller manufacturers who may, in fact, listen to our needs
better because we ARE their market, not just a small portion of their
market.
        No doom and gloom from this quarter.
                                CHEERS!
                                        BOB

 Please check my website: http://www.bobkiss.com/

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Burkholder [mailto:fdanb@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 10:51 AM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: Demise of film

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 09:10:04 2005