[Leica] The Slippery Slope

[geebee at geebeephoto.com (GeeBee)]

In all the discussion about wet v digital printing I am amazed that no one
has mentioned what I consider the wet darkroom trump card. Namely, dropping
the exposed paper into a developing dish, gently rocking the dish and
watching the image appear.

It is such 'magic' that I am amazed that it doesn't keep more of us in the
darkroom. So why don't I do it now? Too lazy to bother with any kind of
printing, digital or wet.

--Graham



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: 09 November 2005 19:51
Subject: Re: [Leica] The Slippery Slope


> All of this has to do with what we're used to - what looks like
> "photography" to us. I've been thinking recently about digital and film,
and
> the fact that digital does not look  exactly like film, and therefore
looks
> different from what we have come to expect photographs -photography - to
> look like. But those who are starting to photograph now will see digital
as
> "normal," and film as some weird old artifact - just as those raised on
> glass plates saw film.
>
>
> On 11/9/05 2:29 PM, "Luis Miguel Casta?eda" <lmc@interlink.es> wrote:
>
> > On 09/11/2005, at 20:19, Daniel Ridings wrote:
> >
> >> Now ... if Agfa Portriga Rapid was still around ... my experience
> >> would be different too :-)
> >
> > huh, that kind of stuff will never come back.
> > You can find very similar things from the other side of the old
> > courtain, but not exactly the same.
> >
> > Dunno why, but I feel that it's fine as is, new times, new ways to
> > work, even in the wet shore.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Saludos
> > -----------------------------------------
> > http://imaginarymagnitude.net/blog/
> >
> >
> >
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