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Subject: [Leica] Why the mad rush / toxicity / DARKROOMS & CHEMICALS.
From: richard.lists at gmail.com (Richard Man)
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:25:24 -0800
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Tina,

Well now, it's great that you get better quality with your digital
route, but generalization is a bit much, don't you think?

It's like saying Leica is the best so everyone should shoot Leica. The
fact is, people shoot iPhone, Holga, Hasselblad, etc. all days long.
As much as you have seen horrible CA from Canon, agencies still
welcome the Canon files. Point is - different strokes for different
folks.

I do know that I have seen some of the Ansel Adam's silver print up
close and the depth is stunning. The shadow just floats out of the
print. Strictly speaking of B&W (wetprint colors lost the war many
years ago), I have seen many good inkjet print too, but silver is
different from floating dots.

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:

> I agree totally, Ted, and the bottom line is - if darkroom processing
> yielded a better result, even with the possibility of chemical poisoning, I
> would still be doing darkroom processing today; however, I get better
> results from lightroom and digital printing than I could ever get in the
> darkroom. ?There might be some professional darkroom aficionados who would
> disagree and could eek better results from a file in the darkroom, but I'm
> sure if Ansel Adams were alive today he would be printing totally digitally
> in the lightroom. ?There is a lot of nostalgia and elitism connected with
> darkroom work that I'm not sure is fully deserved.
>
> Tina




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