Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: The Joy of BD's Darkroom
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:19:17 -0500
References: <B68342CA.328D%alexpix@worldnet.att.net>

Jeeees, Steve...Have you gone over to the Pixel Side? What are you
shooting with?

B. D.

Steven Alexander wrote:
> 
> 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

In reply to: Message from Steven Alexander <alexpix@worldnet.att.net> (Re: [Leica] Re: The Joy of BD's Darkroom)