18 Apr
2004
18 Apr
'04
11:20 a.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
>I don't suppose you happen to know about the
availability of
>materials for a camera that expects to shoot to glass slides? I'll
I am not sure if plates (that's what we call them
in the UK) are still
made. However, sheet film certainly is, and you can back it with a piece
of _flat_ glass or similar. I think there used to be proper converters to
load sheet film into plate cameras.
I thought the cameras that used glass slides, the photographer coated
the plates with the light sensitive stuff before use.
I did read somewhere that one of the early photographic process used
the same process as XEROX copiers. I wonder if nowdays that could be
improved on, as it the time over 100 years ago it gave better quality
photographs.
PS. I think a GOOD B&W photograph in many ways better than a quick
blurry grainy color photo.