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Re: [Digital BW] Photo Conservation

Re: [Digital BW] Photo Conservation

2002-03-17 by Michael Kravit

Jeez, what would I do without the smell of fixer on my hands?

Perhaps someone could invent Compact Flash with the scent of fixer. kind of like the scratch and sniff stuff in girlie magazines.

Mike



>Martin W. Wrote:

>"Stulik [Dusan Stulik, a Getty conservation scientist] said he fears traditional photography will not live to see its third century, making >the need to understand its chemistry - from Niepce to Polaroid .... all the more pressing.

>"Ultimately, he  said, advances in digital photography may do for its chemical counterpart what Gutenberg and the printing press did >to the world of illuminated manuscripts in the 1400's.

>"'It ended it,' Stulik said."




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