On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Joseph McAllister <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 18, 2009, at 04:42 , Nick David Wright wrote: > >> Film is a celluloid based material coated with a light sensitive substance >> which when properly exposed using a device known as a "camera" creates a >> real, tangible image. > > Oh, young grasshopper, you have so much to learn... The light entering your > "camera" and falling on your film only creates an actinic image, invisible > to all. One must also spend an hour in a stinky dank dark room sloshing said > film around in caustic chemicals before an image is viewable. Need I go on > to the "enlarging" process? More chemicals? Drying? Dealing with curl? > Mounting? The crushed corners? The room in which to store the products of > these endeavors?
<homer simpson>Hummmm, caustic chemicals. Arrrrrrr</homer simpson> > >> Unlike modern "digital cameras" which only create computer files. *wink >> wink* :D > > And we know that's only the beginning of another tedious process that has a > similar outcome. ;-) > > Joseph McAllister > [email protected] > > http://gallery.me.com/jomac > http://web.me.com/jomac/show.me/Blog/Blog.html > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
