RE: [Leica] Darkroom depression

["Dan Honemann" <ddh@home.com>]

As someone who is just getting started in photography and planning on doing
my own (B&W) processing, I'm now facing a difficult choice.  Do I invest my
money/time in building a darkroom and learning chemicals, or in buying a
scanner and printer and learning PhotoShop?

And here I thought deciding between the 35 'lux and 'cron was difficult!

Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Dan Cardish
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 6:14 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Darkroom depression
>
>
> As far as colour is concerned, the darkroom is certainly dead.   For black
> and white, there is some life still, but only a little.
>
> Dan C.
>
>  At 05:13 PM 04-05-00 +1000, AlastairF@bhs.grampianshealth.org.au wrote:
> >O me miserum,
> >
> >All this talk of the Darkroom being dead, just as my long
> awaited, dreamed
> >of and planned studio/darkroom becomes a reality. I first started
> >photography in the home darkroom of a professional photographer
> whose mother
> >could not bear to see the room unused. Richard and I toiled away
> for hours,
> >perfecting a very imperfect system of development, learned
> mainly from trial
> >and error (like the day I washed our most precious film in hot water and
> >watched the emulstion slide down the sink). When that
> closed/became a junk
> >room again, I managed to convince my mother to share her
> laundry, and made
> >quite a neat darkroom fold out cupboard arrangement. When I left
> the nest,
> >(and mother changed the locks) I was confined mainly to crawling
> under the
> >sheets and blankets to load film -- very uncomfortable in summer. On
> >graduation, I managed to build a darkroom into the bathroom. It
> was a nice
> >set up, but the steam from the shower was always a problem. Next
> house and a
> >dedicated small darkroom -- dreams coming true, but the work load of post
> >graduate study made sure it was never used, and I moved out the day I
> >stopped study. Now firmly planted, I have had 7 years of digital darkroom
> >misery, and finally the mighty plans are about to come to fruition. ATL
> >Autolab 3, the mother of all water temperature control panels, a wet area
> >huge sink, an exhaust system to suck the rooms air out and over
> 15 times per
> >hour, and a beautiful enlarger bench, AND YOU ARE TELLING ME ITS
> ALL DEAD. O
> >me miserum
> >
> >Cheers
> >
> >Alastair
> >
> >
>