Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 18/10/00 10:27 am, Jim Brick at jim_brick@agilent.com wrote: > For every one "potential" wet darkroom problem, there are at least a > thousand "potential" digital darkroom problems. That sentence works just the same the other way round. I scan and print day after day after day without a hitch. In the last week the only problem I've had was that my neg carrier got stuck in the scanner for thirty seconds! > > I work at a computer all day, designing the computer internals of future > digital cameras. Just in the execution of my work, I spend an inordinate > amount of time futzing with stubborn editors, compilers, remote debuggers, > downloaders, networked printers, cables, disks, running out of memory, > re-booting to start from scratch, not to mention the problems I encounter > and have to solve in my actual work. Getting the camera guts to work. Tthat's not the same as working in a digital darkroom. I might as well compare scanning, photoshopping and printing using established tools to trying to design and assemble a new SLR from scratch, and reach the opposite conclusion. - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com