Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/04

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Subject: [Leica] Why the mad rush to use Canon or Nikon bodies?
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 23:13:17 -0500
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I probably should have stayed out of this discussion. My first  
statement was simply that I was nostalgic a bit  for the old processes  
but had NO desire to return to the wet darkroom.

But, glib comments about carpel tunnel syndrome being the big health  
threat in the darkroom demonstrate a lack of understanding about the  
field that is insulting to people who hand souped tens of thousands of  
rolls of film in poorly ventilated darkrooms. It is a slap to the  
technicians who fought bean counters to install safety systems to  
protect them from poisonous fumes and fluids.

The tobacco company, pseudo-scientific rebuttal of some folk in other  
fields getting the same diseases is a silly insult to our  
understanding of science.

Please, enjoy your time in a darkroom. I would never want to  
discourage you from that thrill and quiet, lone contemplation that is  
to be found in the darkroom. I treasure the years I spent in  
improvised and real darkrooms.

Please, though, just accept that (especially for those who have worked  
in the trenches) there are risks and that some of us have outlived the  
entertainment value of dipping our fingers in rapid fix and dektol.   
Please revel in the odors. I, for one, will not miss them.

And, here I was trying to confine myself more to talking about and  
posting pictures.

ric


On Nov 4, 2009, at 9:56 PM, Richard Man wrote:

> Don't most photo JOURNALists not do their own darkroom work? I know a
> lot of them do...
>
> May be their intense lifetime drives them to drink?!!
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> NPPA published a death study back in the '80s. helicopter crashes and
>> pancreatic cancer were common causes of death for photojournalists
>>
>> ric
>>
>>
>> On Nov 4, 2009, at 9:22 PM, Richard Man wrote:
>>
>>> Are there actual studies on this?
>>>
>>> I mean Steve Job got pancreatic cancer too, and he's a vegan,  
>>> doesn't
>>> smoke, and I don't think he's a darkroom worker.
>>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com
> // w: http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/Portfolio09/ blog:
> http://rfman.wordpress.com
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>
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