Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]but when it's all said and done, my print from the darkroom can and is sold for $800. whereas, any epson printed print might net me a $100, (mainly because of the presentation costs). Rob Mueller Studies in Black and White www.studiesinblackandwhite.com rob@studiesinblackandwhite.com - -----Original Message----- From: Johnny Deadman [mailto:john@pinkheadedbug.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 1:51 PM To: LUG Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: dry & wet darkroom :-()-: 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