Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Looking through the latest Calumet catalog, I noticed that "baryta" ink jet paper is selling for only a few dollars less then conventional baryta-coated photosensitive papers. Talk about marking hype! Take the same paper, leave off the photosensitive material and the manufacturing costs involved with sensitizing the paper, and sell it for about the same price. Duh! OT portion of message: Which brings me to the meandering of the the digital "I can shoot all day for free if I shoot digital" crowd. Film is a small part of the cost of print making. Don't you people ever print out anything? Or is there anything worth printing when you shoot with dollar signs obscuring your eyes? Or haven't you noticed that a nice jet ink print printed on good paper with obscenely expensive inks (a recent magazine estimated the cost of Epson inks at $99.00 a pound) cost more than a conventional print? Sam S Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: > Easy ain't got nothing to do with it. It's all about market value. A baryta > (!) photograph, and this is a purposeful usage of the term, will by far > outstrip the investment value over an ink jet print. I think we at this > stage of a techne transition owe it to future generations. And I do make a > distinction between a photograph, as coined originally, and the current > usage of a "print." > S. Dimitrov > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html