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To: Ilaine who wrote (34963)	11/8/2000 1:40:17 AM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

I used to shoot process camera for a living. Hey, I make buggy whips! <g> Had an old boyfriend that used to do paste up and layout in '83. He was free lance for about $20-$40 an hour....I don't think he's ever been able to make that kind of money since. EPA controls tip the cost-benefit EPA makes us recover silver. I consider it an expense. Frankly, I'm looking forward to getting out of the dark into a dry process, but unfortunately my job description is on the endangered list because there really isn't that much need to manipulate images when they come straight from digital files. At least in still life the digital studios setup "builds" that go straight to a perfect CMYK press ready file. That doesn't mean that they won't be Photoshoping the hell out of stuff....but it will be done by in house geeks at the design firm, service bureau or offset printing facility. That Foveon camera you pointed to is the break through product. It doesn't use CCDs it uses a new kind of CMOS imaging chip that has extremely good resolution and is lots cheaper than what exists. CMOS chips have the ability to process the image as it is being taken. Which means you have motion control, color correction, gamma correction, etc. within the imaging chip instead of doing it after the fact with a DSP. (Who was it that complained they can't get enough from a digital camera when shooting low light concert conditions?- problem fixed) Medical will go digital, it'll take a little longer because of the record keeping necessity and habits. Its a pain in the butt to store all that film but I'm sure that the images have been used to defend more than a few suits. Also, I find the higher the person is on the professional scale the more difficult it is to get them to change something basic like that. X-rays will be around for a while but there is a time factor in processing silver-based film, that can't really get compressed much further. (I know, I've tried) I wonder what happened to all those big process cameras. I'd love to have one.