Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I concur with first 3. I use Jobo so I don't stay in the garage :-) For certain things, I LOVE the M9, but as long as they do not have an XPan digital, I will continue to shoot film... The "magical" properties of film that you mentioned are just side benefits. On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Jim Shulman <jshulman at judgecrater.com>wrote: > Yeah, I know it's smelly, noxious, and far more troublesome than digigal. > But there's something I love about going down to the basement with three > or four exposed rolls of film, just waiting for the images. > > First, there's the sense of delayed gratification. I have no idea if the > shots were good or not until they're processed (though, with experience, I > usually have a pretty good idea.) > > Second, getting my images is a bit like getting a present from FedEx or > UPS. It's a sense of thrill and discovery that the screen on my cell > phone just doesn't match. > > Third, there's still nothing more amazing than opening up the tank after > 20 or 25 minutes and seeing actual pictures on the piece of plastic. > > Fourth, it's a chance for me to hear music without interruption. I leave > the cell phone upstairs (once it rang while I was loading film in the > darkroom, and it almost fogged the roll!) and play either one LP side or > four opera 78s. It's a great escape. > > Best, > Jim > (who had to leave for a business trip with one undeveloped roll just > waiting for him...) > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org] On Behalf > Of > Tina Manley > Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 8:50 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] Aaargh. There is a free L1200 Durst enlarger, in San > Francisco > > Mark - > > I think you have written exactly what I feel. I loved the darkroom when I > worked in it. I still have most of my enlargers and other equipment. I > know I'll never work there again. Chemicals are too bad. Digital is too > good. We can't go back, but I miss it in a lot of ways. I remember > adjusting my enlargers and using timers and my wonderful Jobo, but it's > all a memory now. > > Tina > > On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > > > I was just this week back in Portland Oregon where I'd spent most my > > life going through my storage cubicle looking at my Beseler 5x7 cold > > light and Omega D2V and Aristo VC Head. I refuse to just give the head > > away it feels like the day before yesterday when I spent a grand on it > > and it changed my darkroom life. The enlargers I may have to pay > > somebody to take out of there. > > However like 99.99% of all photogs my darkroom life is a past life. I > > remember it as a dream. > > I'm now shooting digital looking at my camera going "I wonder what > > this button does?". No longer the master of my domain. I'm just > > figuring it all out like everybody else. > > I also came upon in my storage cubicle a box of enlarger glass mainly > > El Nikkor's but I found a 100mm Schneider Componon which I got used at > > Pro Photo Oregon for 70 bucks a few years ago and when I got back to > > my studio I looked up the B&H price and it was like 500 bucks. Making > > it the best deal I ever made in my photo existence. I can use in on my > > Viso system and possibly rig it up to other camera systems one would > > thing. With enough super glue and duck tape. The writing was all ready > > on the wall as to darkroom gear of great value the day before > > yesterday now having close to zero value. > > I look at as a positive though. > > its an exciting revolution time in photography for such a thing to be > > happening. And we get to be in on it on the ground floor. > > Any lecture I might be making on split printing or other darkroom or > > photography work I did for decades falls under the heading of "history > > of photography". In ten years it will go full circle and there will be > > a resurgence of interest in shooting and maybe printing film. By then > > there will be one company in Croatia making film for forty dollars a > roll. > > > > - - from my iRabs. > > Mark Rabiner > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>