Also, these days much (most?) silver in photography is recovered, as colour
labs extract it all in processing.
tOM
On Thursday, August 29, 2002 at 11:48, Larry Woods
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "[OM] Is the end of silver film anyw" saying:
> (Was: Re: [OM] Bad processing of film driving people to digital)
>
> To take the question of film's remaining lifespan off on another
> tangent, I recall a book from the early 70's called "The Limits to
> Growth" produced by an organization called the Club of Rome. Its
> thesis was that civilization was using up critical resources at a
> rate that some resources would run out in relatively short times,
> forcing major changes to the way we lived.
>
> The book was later discredited, with its authors conceding that
> consumption rates were much slower than what they had put in their
> computer model.
>
> I recall that the first resource to run out was going to be
> silver, in about 8 or 12 years from when the book came out. The
> book noted that silver was being consumed faster than it was being
> mined, with the difference coming from reserves.
>
> At the time, the only substitute I knew of was a non-silver
> reprographic film with a single-digit ASA speed. I recall thinking
> that things could get very interesting if the predictions
> were true. But of course the predictions weren't.
>
> Digital photography (and videotape) have probably cut significantly
> into silver consumption for photographic uses - or at least limited
> its upward curve. I would be curious to know if statistics are
> available on present-day silver production, consumption, and
> reserves, and if they indicate any end-of-life point for photographic
> film as we know it beyond the current speculation about it becoming
> obsolete for reasons of convenience or uneconomic because of low
> volume.
--
--------- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Olympus-Documentation
--------- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ottawa-photo-clubs
tOM Trottier, ICQ:57647974 http://abacurial.com
758 Albert St, Ottawa ON Canada K1R 7V8
+1 613 860-6633 fax:231-6115 N45.412 W75.714
"The moment one gives close attention to anything,
even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious,
awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself --
Henry Miller, 1891-1980
< This message was delivered via the Olympus Mailing List >
< For questions, mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >
< Web Page: http://Zuiko.sls.bc.ca/swright/olympuslist.html >
|