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To: long-gone who wrote (1261)	8/7/1998 3:25:00 PM
From: Ray Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8010

Hi Rich, I take photos professionally for my clients' use in reports, investor posters for conference booths, etc. We do professionally exactly what "You've Got Pictures?" will do. Even a 35mm neg. (and I view 35mm as a toy compared to large format negs.) has vastly more "pixels" than present day digitally-originated images, i.e. silver halide grains by the millions instead of a few hundred thousand pixels. We have the neg. "drum scanned" whereby a laser reads each halide or dye grain and digitizes the image as millions of pixels. From that point on we can do all the manipulation that could be done with an image digitally-originated, only we have a vastly higher definition, truer-color original image to work with. Bringing this technology to the consumer level will reduce the cost of a drum scan from about $25 to pennies. Hence, I see the whole process as you do - digital will enhance, not degrade, growth of silver-based photography for at least 5 years. To change, the cost of memory must drop by orders of magnitude more before a high definition image can be taken digitally by a consumer camera. rh