Abstract
Silver halide photographic materials have been constantly improved for better image quality, light sensitivity, and cost performance, to the limit. Furthermore, we have succeeded in making photography familiar to everyone by infrastructure development through the simplification and automation of photography, and through the improvement in productivity of lab processing, etc. Although recently various image input/output devices have been developed with the progress of digital technology, the infrastructure and services which have been built for silver halide photography can be utilized as they are, and in addition, the know-how collected through the development of silver halide materials is currently utilized for various digital equipment. Imaging technologies and service infrastructures built with siver halide photography will continue to progress with the furthering advances in digital technology, and contribute to development of photographic culture.
