Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim, Thanks for the write up on film versus digital. That's why the LUG is great - you learn something every day and today was a "humdinger" of learning. One time in the early 70's I had a chance to work with a Philips SEM Microscope. By today's standard it would be the Watts steam engine of Electron Microscopes. It was an incredible machine. Filled a room with vacuum pumps, gizmos and gadgets. A techno-freak's heaven. Most of the stuff I made images of, were concrete samples, molecular structures of various additives in concrete. Great fun. Enlarged salami sample from the cafeteria almost turned me into a vegetarian and reduced the salami consumption for several weeks after I printed a couple of shots made from these images and hung them in the lunch room of the research facility. Nicely tinted with the old thiocarbamide process too. Now I have to process some gigabytes of information stored in little yellow and green cans. Mostly Tri-X and Neopan 1600, but it only takes a couple of hours to process and store this stuff and it can be quickly retrieved and once properly archivally processed, will last a long, long time with no fear of Y2K or electronic crashes. Thanks Jim. Tom A