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Making the Transition from Film to Digital

But the early 1990s brought a dramatic change with the advent of digital technology. Instead of using grains of silver embedded in gelatin, digital photography uses silicon to record images as numbers. Computers process the images, rather than optical enlargers and tanks of often toxic chemicals. Chemically-developed wet printing processes have given way to prints made with inkjet printers, which squirt microscopic droplets of ink onto paper to create photographs..."

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