I was thinking that's what you meant in the first place, but wasn't sure if you were just joking!
When enough light reaches a silver halide crystal (requires several photons) a latent image site is formed that is actually pure metallic silver on the crystal. The chemical development process amplifies this site and plates out much more silver, thus forming a a much much larger silver particle (though still extremely tiny compared to, say, a single drop size made by an inkjet printer). The particle usually grows into a very filamentary structure, not just a round particle shape. Anyway, the chemical fixing process in traditional photography dissolves the remaining silver halide crystal structures (and thus renders the emulsion no longer light sensitive), leaving behind only the silver particles to absorb light in the final image. While both the silver halide crystal and the developed silver particles are opaque and trap light effectively, it is the varied size and distribution of the developed silver particles in the image layer that gives rise to the analog continuous tonal gradations in the final black and white print (or b&W negative). So the final image is not digital in the sense of "on" or off" dots, but then again, neither are inkjet prints (another story).
For traditional color prints, the development of the exposed silver halide crystals into silver particles oxidizes the liquid developer in proportion to the amount of developed silver content in the red, green and blue light-sensitive emulsion layers of the resin coated (RC) paper. The oxidized developing agents in turn react with special color coupling compounds to produce cyan, magenta, and yellow dyes. The silver particles and remaining silver halide compounds are then bleach-fixed and washed out of the print, thus creating a color photographic print made only of dyes. The color image is comprised of isolated cyan, magenta, and yellow dyes protected in a gelatin binder layer. This RC color paper technology is chemically very sophisticated, yet it is what the public has been accustomed to buying for more than 30 years. Color fidelity and image permanence have incrementally improved as the technology matured.
Here's some more info, and I'm sure if you do some searching on the web you will find a lot more interesting info.
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/researchDevelopment/whatWeDo/technology/chemistry/silver.shtml
Mark McCormick
http://www.aardenburg-imaging.com 