On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, williamsp@netspace.net.au wrote:
> Quoting Dan Burkholder <fdanb@aol.com>:
>
>> 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.
>
> Maybe if you had to make the sensor it would seem more equal?
>
> --
> Peter Williams
GOOD POINT! For me one of the attractions of photography vs. digital
is the very fact that I can manufacture just about anything I might
need myself, from "off the shelf" parts. With many industrial digital
applications today, the technology and the materials are beyond the
reach of would be practitioners. It's worth noting that much of the
development in the area of digital imaging has been done with
government funding - military in the main - it did not happen because
of consumer, or even corporate desires.
--greg
Received on Mon Aug 8 16:21:19 2005
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