Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Would you start a wet darkroom today?
From: Douglas Herr <telyt560@cswebmail.com>
Date: 26 Oct 2000 13:56:34 -0700

On Thu, 26 October 2000, "Tim Spragens" wrote:

> 
> On 26 Oct 00, at 10:39, Douglas Herr wrote:
> 
> > I'd go digital.  Here's why:
> > 
> > ) Chemical darkrooms today are where slide rules were in the early 1970's. 
> > Would you teach him to use a slide rule, or a calculator?
> 
> Excellent analogy - people who learned calculators without learning 
> sliderules missed understanding the nature of analog relationships. 
> I'd say teaching the wet darkroom would instruct in more than 
> making photos, and would be a better place to start.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt
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