SEA MOSS KILLS FILM, or at least it might

[Stephen <cameras@jetlink.net>]

SEA MOSS, err CMOS, came into its own today.

Kodak and Motorola today announced a new major step in digital
photography, a new much cheaper type of digital cameras based upon
something called SEA MOSS, or read that CMOS.

Supposedly the much lower cost will really make digital cameras
practical on an every day basis for the home users.

Think what they might mean.

With lower film sales, you also have lower film development budgets and
less film choices.

Imagine film getting so scarce and obsolete that a hundred years from
now the "old time" photographers who prefer film have to make their own
just like our predecessors in the early days of photography?  that would
be a new day indeed.  

It would be interesting to see an art history book a 300 years from now
to find out if film based photography was a fleeting art form which was
invented and died within 150 years.

Stephen Gandy

PS.  Where was this stuff invented?  LA of course, where else?