Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Johnny Deadman writes: > film emulsions have improved to an astonishing degree And what else? It's still shutter, lens, and aperture. My father used to develop and print his own black and white when I was in diapers. When I finally got around to doing this myself, several decades later, we were both pleased and surprised to discover that everything still worked the same way: Same Tri-X (more or less), same little yellow cans of D-76, same film cans, same agitation, as if he had only been doing it all yesterday. It's quite a refreshing change compared to some other domains, in which everything you learn is obsolete before you finish the class, and change becomes an end in itself, instead of the means to a more productive objective.