1994 Volume 53 Pages 104-123,149-50
100 years have passed since the appearance of modern photography. During this period, two basic elements of photography, the camera and film have been highly developed. However, as to the photographic technology which should combine these two elements, it is hard to find the degree of progress found in other devices.
Photographic technology should have developed as a system that enables various delicate expressions. Indeed, we find a quite complicated situation in the prevailing method of negative printing, that is, even with the most advanced fine-tuning camera and with proper photographing techniques, you cannot gain the exact result that you expected. Why has such a difficulty come about? It is because today's photographic system does not have a clear printing criteria so as to reproduce correct colors. The current printing system has not caught up with the advanced high-tuning camers.
The advent of the disposable camera is a symbolic phenomenon that suggests the above-mentioned situation. In general, disposable cameras don't have accurate exposure controls. You can get a acceptable quality print with such cameras, but it is meaningless to balance light and adjust exposure strictly. It means that, as for fine-tuning cameras, today's printing system has a "misplaced automatism" from the beginning.
In this paper, the author tried to point out various problems in modern photographic technology, i. e. state-of-the-art printing systems, exposure mechanisms, maintenance of the flatness-retaining performance, resources and environmental effects concerning service-print, etc…The author also presents a new system of photography that respects the human mind and environment with his unique know-how to improve this field of art. The author also adds soms consideration to factors which disturbed such improvements.
