Let's all tip our 40's for the latest victim of the digital
revolution: those guys who used to develop your film. The New York Times recently
reported that as of September 15, Stop & Shop supermarkets will no longer
be offering film processing at their 300 Northeast stores, and other chains are
expected to follow suit as camera manufacturers move to digital.
We're a little conflicted about this, actually. Sure, nobody
wants their personal photos ogled by pasty-faced teens, to say nothing of Robin Williams. But
once, long ago, we had a clerk slip us her number in a packet of prints
developed at the college union. Moving to digital makes it impossible for that
to ever happen again, even more so than our having gotten fat and wrinkly. — Scanner correspondent Bryan Christian
