Bob Talbot <BobTalbot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> 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. > > Frankly Jeff this whole line is getting very silly. > > > My first encounters with film did not involve a single spark of > electricity: it was simply developed with exposing paper via the sun. > Of course home development had already become a minority sport by the > time Gran taught me how to do it. In fact I don't remember her 50-y > of photography needing a single 13-amp power point. Cameras really > were just boxes to hold film. I, on the other hand, never even contact-printed by anything other than electric light. I've heard of "printing-out-paper", but never actually seen any. l > Even when we went the more conventional route, taking the films to > "Boots" for processing. It still didn't need any local processing. > In fact, you can still just pop your films in an envelope and have > them back a few days later for 5 dollars. No need computers and > power to view the "latent images" anywhere near the point of use - > it just needs a postman (a man on a bike with a bag) and a tiny > amount of patience. That requires a reliable and cheap transportation infrastructure that I don't think is present in these villages just getting electricity for the first time. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
