Johan Schoone wrote:
>
> In article <000001c0deba$43135e40$04000005@default> you write:
> >An interesting (dry) development from the British Journal of Photography'=
> >s
> >e-newsletter. It would be an amazing process if it works.
>
> [Press release]
>
> I remember seeing something similar before. It seems the film gets
> destroyed (rendered unusable for printing or projecting) in the
> process. I see little or no advantage in using this process, other
> than reduced use of chemistry.
That, in itself, would make the process worthwhile. Even with the
best modern reclamation equipment a photo lab is a major producer
of rather nasty byproducts. And that reclamation effort isn't cheap.
There are also claims that the final yield from the film stock
exceeds current chemical processing in both resolution and density
range. I'll wait until I've seen more unbiased information before
I wholeheartedly accept that. But if it *is* true I'll be quite
happy to take delivery of my images on digital media. For those
who want a physical hardcopy it should be easy enough to write out
the data again to a frame of film which is conventionally processed.
As for the 'vapourware' suggestion - I don't think so. Applied
Science Fiction have a pretty good track record (even if they
do have a name that suggests a couple of geeks in a basement).
These are the people that developed Digital Ice (the scratch
reducing technology used in the Nikon and other scanners) and a
couple of other image manipulation tools that Nikon incorporated
into their latest 4000dpi units.
Some pretty hard-nosed reviewers seem convinced that this is
a genuine technology - I'd be prepared to give ASF the benefit
of the doubt at present.
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