Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Niche is good :-) While I love my little DSLR, I'm hell bent that energy/health allowing, I'm going to learn contact printing and other various alternative processes for making prints. Screw the "infinite and lossless" reproduceability of digital. Thank God I'm not shooting for Maxim or House and Garden or whatever. I want to make prints (not "captured" "images") where each one is a precious, one of a kind product of individual craft. Then my relatives can fight over them when I eventually croak :-) Scott Marc James Small wrote: >At 07:50 PM 2/22/06 -0500, Scott McLoughlin wrote: > > >>Is this mostly an issue in small towns or suberbs? >> >>At least the various Ritz cameras around downtown DC I >>sometimes use always have someone in the back working at the >>machine and cranking out prints. I don't know about the Penn >>Cameras downtown because the "guts of the operation" are not >>visible. But Penn is still renting out MF film gear, selling film >>including a reasonable selection of B&W films and 120 films, >>and so forth. >> >> > >Scott > >The issue is that we film users are now a niche market and that commercial >development of our pictures will become increasingly difficulat to find >over the decades to come. There is no problem with this: that is just the >way it is. We are in a minority market and a shrinking one. Perhaps I >should set up a specialty shop to do film processing. Hmm. Every time a >cash register sounds, it means an angel is born, or so the tale runs. <he >grins> > >Marc > >msmall@aya.yale.edu >Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > >NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505 > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act)