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Jim Megargee is a traditional photographer.
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He struggles with how photography
has changed from film to digital.
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“There is a physical difference between a silver print
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and a digital print.
There is just a physical difference to it.
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It’s something not many people think of.
And with a silver print,
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it’s — that’s
actually an etching into paper into a silver layer.
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That’s embedded in the paper.
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With a digital print it’s ink on paper.”
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Kodak is America’s largest photographic film company.
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It may stop making film.
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But Mr.Megargee says that does not mean photographers
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like him will no longer be able to work.
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“What happens with the photographer when you lose a material,
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like that, like say your favorite film
gets taken off the market or, you know,
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the company stops making it, there are other companies.
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They are not going to replace that film,
but they have maybe a similar product.”
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But stopping the manufacture of a product
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will affect the people who produce it.
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Ray Rock works at Kodak headquarters in Rochester, New York.
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“Personally, very concerned.
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I still need a few more years before
I can get full retirement benefits,
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I — we’ll see what happens.”
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Kodak may continue in business by selling
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rights to some of the digital imaging technology it created.
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Bruce Upbin of Forbes magazine says Kodak
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will be a different company from what it once was.
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“My hunch is it will be mostly
an intellectual property company,
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meaning it’ll just be collecting revenue
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from licensing its patents and technology.”
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Mr. Megargee says comparing traditional
chemical photography
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with digital photography
is like comparing watercolors to oil paintings.
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“It’s not unusual to see someone sitting
on a computer station okay,
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and doing the — trying to make —
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do the same thing and taking two or three or four hours.”
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He is hoping for a continued supply
of traditional products to work with.