Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 11:35, bill harting wrote: > That's a good question. These days list discussion is dominated by the > (accurate) assumption that digital is here (it is). For most commercial uses > digital is necessary. How many of us still have darkrooms and of those, for > how many is it still central to what they are doing with their camera? > > I, for one, get a pleasure out of making a traditional print that I don't > get yet from sitting at a computer and making a print on a printer. OTOH, > when someone asks me for a copy of a print, depending on who it is, they'll > get a digital file via email or a digital print. Or maybe a fiber, > dry-mounted silver print. > > Those who still use their darkrooms, please raise your hands. > > bill h The still have a traditional darkroom, because I enjoy doing it and also simply for the fact that to me nothing looks better than a nice silverprint on glossy fiber paper. The biggest problem is that making silverprints is time consuming.. So I also have a piezography setup, which looks good- but different. Feli