Digital BW, The Print

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From: "wwodets" <odets@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 3:27 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] On precision and consistency in BW materials . . .


Last night I had a long conversation with an interesting chemist (and
amateur photographer) who worked for Eastman Kodak long ago.  He has
just purchased an Epson 1800 and he said that he liked
the "consistency" of digital photography.  He told me that chemists are
always concerned about the use of "natural" materials like gelatin,
which, of course, Eastman used extensively.  Natural materials, he
said, tend to be inconsistent.  Their solution?  For many decades
Eastman had their own herds of cows so that they could control the feed
and improve the consistency of the gelatin taken from hoofs and other
body parts.

And we thought we had problems with ink batches and ICC profiles.






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>But arn't the inks made from cows ?

>(TIC)

>Gary