Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: dry & wet darkroom :-()-:
From: Johnny Deadman <john@pinkheadedbug.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:50:35 -0400

on 17/10/00 1:24 pm, Douglas Herr at telyt560@cswebmail.com wrote:

> The chemical darkroom has become so familiar to many of us that it's easy to
> forget what can go wrong ... chemical contamination, aged chemicals, fogged
> paper, bad enlarger alignment, dust storms, a train rolling past outside the
> building vibrating the *&@% out of everything, sneezing in the wrong
> direction, losing count when the timer quits...

Not to mention hives from metol sensitivity, suffocation, the place burning
down because the plumbing interacted with the wiring, selenium poisoning,
newton rings, and ABOVE ALL the fact that you finally managed to get all the
burning dodging and bleaching right on one print doesn't guarantee for a
moment you'll get it right on the next... and even when you meticulously
annotate all your moves, you still can't replicate the damn thing.
- -- 
Johnny Deadman

http://www.pinkheadedbug.com