The Revelation of Color Photos

Luo Chong looked at the dumbstruck faces of the group across the table, and the twisted pleasure in his heart was immensely satisfied. Before they could come to their senses, he immediately dropped another bombshell.

"Actually, your photography has another major flaw: it's far too restricted by conditions. First, the camera is too large and inconvenient to move, so carrying it around is out of the question. Second, you need a darkroom to develop photos. If you wanted to take pictures somewhere, you couldn't possibly carry a darkroom everywhere you went, could you? What if I asked you to go up a mountain and take pictures? Would you carry a darkroom up there, or build a makeshift one after reaching the mountain? Wouldn't that be a hassle?"

Qu Bing suddenly asked, "But without a darkroom, there's no way to develop photos. Once the chemicals on the negative dry, they stop working."

"That's exactly the biggest problem. What if you could make dry negatives? If you used them together with an enlarger, you could make a camera as small as a palm, carry it in your hand, and take pictures wherever you went.

"Then you could prepare some ultra-small dry negatives in advance and put them in a box. You could carry a hundred negatives with you at once and load them into a palm-sized camera. After going out and taking a round of pictures, you could bring them back and slowly develop them in the darkroom. Once they were developed, you could use an enlarger to copy and enlarge them. You could make as many copies of a photo as you wanted. Wouldn't that be better?"

The people across the table remained dumbstruck. Although this was only Luo Chong's idea, it truly sounded tempting. And once this technology could be