----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Spirer" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 8:41 Subject: Re: Fate of Silver Gelatin Paper : The problem, Bob, is that with no electricity, there's no : processing. That's why when you go into these villages that recently got : electricity, there's no base of film users. There might be someone in the : village who knows how to process black and white film, but there's no : temperature control, often no clean supply of running water, and absolutely : no way to run the enlarger. Film makes no sense in a poor village with no : electricity. With electricity being introduced recently, it's easy to have : a shop with a Frontier and sell digital cameras to the locals. I've seen ads for solar enlargers that used to be sold in the UK - and I've seen pics of solar anlargers in use in India. I've even seen images of street vendors doing while-yo-wait portraits who process the shots inside their cameras (shemistry and all!) it's amazing what can be done when there's a will. however, no amount of will power will get a digital image to paper without electricity. k -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 265.5.4 - Release Date: 12/15/04
