Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]><Snip> would point > out though that I find amusing your description of digital photography > as seeming "not a little bit like magic" - given that one so often hears > the traditional darkroom process described in precisely those same > words. > :-) > > B. D. > An image coming out of the Dektol is black magic if ever i saw it. I never got over the first time I saw it happen. Computers are fun. But I don't go down on my knees thanking god about them nor worrying if the Devil is hanging out over my right shoulder. If it's magic it's magic that was done in a software lab somewhere else at some other time. I am just now seeing some of it's results. But I'm the one making the picture develop real time as i wiggle it having mixed up the soup and poured it out and inadvertently breathed some of it. Real time magic happens in the darkroom. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabinergroup.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html