Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 1/11/01 10:32 AM, B. D. Colen at bdcolen@earthlink.net wrote: > Odd, but I don't have a single game on my computer, and by using a track > ball and sitting in a proper chair, I've eliminated the RSI/carpal > tunnel problems....I'll grant you that I need a pair of "computer" > glasses set for middle distance, but that's not a big deal....and I am > sitting in a comfortable, cheerful, lighted room turning out better and > better prints as I perfect my skills doing with the computer precisely > the same things I would be doing in the wet, smelly dark...well, that's > not exactly true...I'm spending a whole lot less time worrying about > dust, scratches on negs, etc., and I am spending infinitely less time > when I want to go back and make identical second, third, etc. etc. > copies of prints I've already made... > > Hey, to each his own....and I certainly understand how someone like you, > who spends his life working with computers, would want another activity > that would get you as far away from them as possible..;-) > > B. D. Amen. I know your prints up close and personal and will say that they are as true as any chemical/silver print. I've not used a Leica, film camera since early December and have therefore eliminated the other part the darkroom, film processing. I had not printed in the dark for quite sometime, I used pro labs, but now print on my Epson machines. Daylight has entered my life and my passion. Good pixels/good images, Steven Alexander