From Silver to Silicon

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Will film survive? Yes, says a British scientist and photography expert. From Silver to Silicon is an interesing article in the British mag Amateur Photographer of 22 December 2001, by scientist Geoffrey Crawley - former B+W chemist for Paterson, and BJP editor for 21 years. A very technical article, but among his comments, Crawley writes: "Most photographers - but not all - still find it preferable to work in black and white (in the darkroom). It gives a direct hands-on satisfaction that the computer keyboard, pre-set program routines and monitoring on a VDU somehow lack - especially if they already make everyday use of a computer in the workplace... As to the future, the full superseding by electronic means of silver halide systems could only occur if means are found to make still smaller pixels for the photo-sensor and more rapid and larger capacity image storage. Even then, film is likely to co-exist, as people enjoy having alternatives....And remember - it is what an image says that is most important, not the means use to make i

-- Daid Killick (dalex@inet.net.nz), March 16, 2002

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