Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]excellent points - on the overlap piece I'd also add that I'll NEVER go back to making contact prints in a wet darkroom! And even though my understanding of PS is very incomplete, I think that it does actually aid me in making better "wet" prints, as I use it to explore the negatives prior to going in the darkroom. charlie - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@markrabiner.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 9:37 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Darkroom in a manufactured home > Charles Walden wrote: > > > > I'll second all of the following, but (with a smile) will add that if us old > > chemical-laden wet darkroom junkies don't get new people to continue buying > > the equipment / supplies, we'll find ourselves building jobos out of parts > > from edmund scientific, grinding oak galls for pyro and coating our own > > paper. > > > > but seriously, habit is strong force - I worked hard to figure out how to > > make decent prints in a darkroom. I would frankly rather spend the time > > shooting, developing and printing than climbing up a new learning curve. > > even though in a few years it may become inevitable... > > > > charlie. > > > > > The way I see it Inkjetting is a phenomenon that is getting thousands of > new people printmaking - a higher level of photography- every day. > A higher level than picking up their 4x6's at the drugstore or minilab. > A little more involvement with these letter sized prints I'd say! > > So if one out of a thousand of these inkjetters one day says "What's > real darkroom printing all about" then we'll be having a darkroom boom - > not the opposite. > Are the camera store filled with cheap used enlargers and used trays > because of all these people gone inkjet? > > If so then i think it works the other way too. The inkjetters go darkroom. > > And then there is the issue of the overlap. > > Digital and darkroom techniques overlap now. So you have to have both. > For instance FineArt Platinum prints are being done now with digital beginnings. > > > > Mark Rabiner > Portland, Oregon USA > http://www.markrabiner.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html