Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]BR The process also returned a CD so that there was a "negative" returned. There was some test marketing in NYC with the kiosks located in stores with an initial positive response. However... the process is destructive and if the kiosk is not maintained and serviced properly you get back exactly nothing. Imagine the scenario of some poor store manager explaining to a patron, I am so sorry you lost all the images of your fathers' funeral, the birth of your first grandchild, the wonderful vacation in France, and your daughters wedding candid. No, there is nothing I can do, the negatives are destroyed, and we have nothing.... imagine the poor schmuck being bludgeoned to death with a couture purse. The above is why this didn't go anywhere, why risk your images when one hour labs are almost literally everywhere. Even if they horribly abuse the negatives at least you can get something back. Don dorysrus@mindspring.com - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Afterswift@aol.com Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 6:53 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Kodak Focus on Digital In a message dated 9/25/03 4:39:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ahgraves@prodigy.net writes: > The company is Applied Science Fiction ( web site was www.asf.com) > and they had a dry film development process which allowed digital > imaging from film, but I believed it "destroyed" the film, so far as > using it for a traditional negative is concerned. They also made some > wonderful Photoshop plugins which Kodak is still producing. --Allen - --------------------------------------------------------- Even if the film lost its negative capacity, the ASF technology -- if successful -- would invade digital imaging, and Kodak would make money selling film. What is even more interesting is that printing would follow the same commercial procedure. You would drop off a roll of film at a pick up dealer and get back prints, but without negs. Most folks would go for that. In effect, a film camera is used to produce a positive file and the print that goes along with it. What do you need a digital camera for? It's more work for dad. I wonder what Kodak did with that technology? br - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html