Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Frank, For a silver list we'd all have to meet and show each other our darkroom prints and slides - not a bad idea as such, but a bit heavy on travelling costs. When you get down to it, everything being shown on the web is digital, whether film+scan or sensor recorded - we can't get away from it. Douglas Frank Filippone wrote: >The ultimate digital comment..... > >Paraphrased....... Nothing in photogrpahy was worthwhile until digital came >along. > >Who is for starting a LUG-Silver list? > >Frank Filippone >red735i@earthlink.net > > > > >On 2/20/06, Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > >>B+W wet darkrooms will never be surpassed by digital prints. there is a >>place for both of them, For the artist, making a few prints, and not >>selling any of them, wet is where it is at. For the professional, digital >>may suffice for his clientele. Fine. We can coexist. >> >> > >And wet prints will never surpass digital. BD has pointed this out so >many times: they are different beasts. It's like saying apples are >better than oranges. > >I've seen some good stuff done in the wet-darkroom. None of it appears >to be worth the effort that went in to making them :-) > >Daniel > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >