That must be an interesting read. What little digital photography existed in his day must have been powered by steam.
the scanner was the point of interest. scanning images for further processing.
Photographers are, in a sense, composers and the negatives are their scores. …In the electronic age, I am sure that scanning techniques will be developed to achieve prints of extraordinary subtlety from the original negative scores. If I could return in twenty years or so I would hope to see astounding interpretations of my most expressive images. It is true no one could print my negatives as I did, but they might well get more out of them by electronic means. Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.” - Ansel Adams