Does this mark the end of making photographs using photographic paper and chemicals in the darkroom? This item seen on the NY Times may lead us towards that conclusion.
Rummaging through my father’s old magazines, I found a big bunch of early issues of ‘Practical Mechanics’. Here is a cover from one dated march 1937. So you see this is not a new idea, just that we have much more technology available to us in this century.
The cover story in this 1937 issue of ‘Practical Mechanics’ was Profitable Printing at Home. The article is, in part, a review of a small printing press invented by Donald Aspinall. I quote:
In 1922 he built his first machine, found it satisfactory, and put it on the market. It was named the "Adana" -an anagram of the initial letters of the inventor’s name ....
Back in 1970, I looked a bit like Dylan. It wasn’t that I tried. My hair was long, curly and dark, and my modest diet gave me the gaunt look.
Last night, like many others of my generation, I reflected on those ‘long hair’ days, when I strummed along to ‘Girl from the North Country’, ‘To Ramona’ and ‘My Back Pages’. The Martin Scorsese documentary - ‘No Direction Home’ was enthralling but also disappointing.
Who invented SCART? Home Entertainment Nightmare connections!
The answer (often the case these days) is found on WikiPedia. The reason I bring this up though, is that I find it particularly frustrating in that corner of the house where we have TV, DVD player, VCR and cableTV box, it is very difficult to get any sensible solution to connecting all of this together.
We are luckier than many I suspect, becuse our (rather ancient) Sony TV has 2 scart inputs on the back and this removes the need for any adaptor box.
I have recently had to get one of these multi-scart connector boxes for my parents ...
