Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]YEA! DARKROOMS! Soon as I get mine back together, I won't have to go over to my friend Bob's house to print! Of course, he has a very nice setup... a Saunders 4x5 enlarger, huge sink, and it is convenient... er, anyway, there is something magical about seeing the image appear in the tray, even after 35 years! For 'quickies' to send on the internet to friends and family, or 'down and dirty' quick prints, the digital stuff is quick, easy and fun. However, there still is some magic in getting your fingers wet, the smell of the paper ( Agfa Brovira used to have a faint clove like smell!), the fixer, the stop, and the hot enlarger head! Heady stuff! Yes, Gareth,Old Cobber, I am with you on this and that's fair dinkum, as they say (I think!) Dan (Are you ever too old to try and get the Sheilas to doff their duds, and bare their buds?) - ----- Original Message ----- From: Gareth Jolly <garethjolly@bigpond.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 8:36 AM Subject: [Leica] Re: Darkroom to Digital and unrelated matters > Hey guys, > > Anybody going to stand up for the darkroom? > > I use both. > > Digital is very convenient, but you can't match the resolution you get from > a B&W darkroom print with digital. And you have to put up with those > annoying widely spaced dots which make up the highlights. > > Give me the darkroom for a fine print, any day - particularly with the > superb resolution of Leica lens. Just can't pack into an 8MB file what you > can pack into a 35mm neg taken with a Leica. > > And there are things I can do in a darkroom which, as a result of the limits > on the tonal range I can scan and manipulate with Photoshop, that I simply > can't do with digital. > > On another topic, Adeal in Australia have just replaced my Leica M6 HM with > a new TTL over the neg scratching problem. Just thought I'd register my > appreciation for this kind gesture on the LUG. > > > Cheers > Gareth Jolly > Sydney Australia > >