I had a long talk with Timothy Falconer yesterday about this, that and the other thing. I’d interviewed him for an article for Wired a few months ago; he’s doing some very interesting things with photos and the Semantic Web. This morning he blogs:

Yesterday I developed my first “wet-lab” photographic print in more than twenty-five years. What amazes me most is that nearly nothing about it has changed in all that time. The chemicals and equipment all look and work the same, the brand names are the same, the process is the same. This is both surprising and consoling, given that my chosen field (computer software) usually changes every 25 days, never mind years.

I don’t know nothing about photography, but aren’t the days of wet labs numbered, except for tiny specialty jobs? Won’t digital cameras get to the point in, say, ten years where there is simply no advantage to film cameras? Or will photophiles be able to make the quality case that analog audiophiles successfully make now? (Keep in mind that you’re talking to someone who sets the audio quality for his MP3s to “Dixie Cup and String.”)

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