Re: [Leica] Darkroom depression

["rlb" <rlb@triad.rr.com>]

Jeez, when it gets to the point that I can no longer purchase chemicals and
FB paper and my only choice is digital I think it will be time to hang it
up.  I have all the right tools in my digital darkroom and the prints that I
get are beautiful but it's a long way from a darkroom print.

Bob


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Cardish" <dcardish@microtec.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 3:13 AM
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
> >
> >