RE: [Leica] dry & wet darkroom :-(

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

I don't get this...Not the difficulty some folks are having with what is for
them a new process - we all go through that - but the fact that folks aren't
having fun with this.....I haven't mucked around in a darkroom - well,
kitchen, for literally 27 years. But when I started  scanning and playing
with Photoshop I felt like I was back in the darkroom without the chemicals,
the mess, or the dark. The moves are the same, the setting is different.

Ted, don't give up! I know you'll master this and be churning out prints
that put us all to shame.

B. D.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Jason Hall
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 10:12 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] dry & wet darkroom :-(
>
>
> > > Hi Guys & Gals,
> > > After several hours of trying to "electronically" dodge and burn a
> neg
> > > to make one decent print, I have to confess out of sheer
> frustration,
> > > "read my inadequacies," in coping with the learning curve of
> > > computer/printer compared to wet/my printing, that it's just
> driving me
> > > up the
> > > wall or around the curves, contrasts, brightness or wiggling
> lines!
> > >
> > > Frustrated and head aching, but determined to learn! ;-).... Damn,
> good
> > > time for a comforting single malt! :-)
> > >
> > > ted
> > >
> > Well Ted if you think you have it bad, pity poor me, I am just at
> the
> > beginning, having just bought a scanner.
> >
> > Steve
> > Annapolis
>
> And for me at least, theres no pleasure or excitement in the digital
> process to inspire me to greater efforts, messing on the PC leaves me
> frustrated and bored unlike the darkroom where 12 hours can flash by
> unnoticed.  I get a buzz from making a wet print!  (Though Im not a
> master of that either)
>
> JBH
>
>