Another Old Process

color photography has lost most of its processes. Usually for the same reason — people only need one; the new one.

When I began working, the person I worked for was a chemist who had worked on the Chromotone process, among others. He was an industrial chemist. An odd job in those days. He had become a photographer, in true military fashion, after being drafted and trained in photography… I suppose they could have made hime a cook, in which case I’d have never learned so much about the processes of color photography.

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the old new

as a field changes, something becomes the old, the past way. During the transition the old lays claim to some feature, or ability to declare itslef as the better way — that thing is what is irrelevent to the future, which is why we change approaches to old problems, or discover new problems, interests.