Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John, First I would like to suggest the option to shoot slides. Esp. if you are still exploring picture taking technique, as you wrote. It ist cheaper than a darkroom, be it wet or digital, it requires much less space and time, there are fewer factors which alter the final result, it will teach correct exposure, and IMO color slide photography is easier to get a grasp of because the final result is closer to our eye's vision than BW prints. On the matter of darkrooms I'll vote for the traditional wet one - partly because the traditional techniques are much easier to learn and master, as they are much more obvious to the beholder than to transform a neg with a scanner to a low-res fuzzy computer screen picture and from there to gamma calibrated printers - partly beacause a wet darkroom is much more fun for hbbyists and amateurs - and partly because it is much easier and cheaper to achieve prints of much higher quality than from a digital setup. Digital has its advantage were fast turnaround times are required and where money doesn't matter. Digital equipment for high quality results that does your optical equipment justice is still *very* expensive. (Oh, I forgot, this is the LUG - money does not matter) Regards, Axel