[Leica] Hot news! There is life in film yet.

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

Mark Rabiner OFFERED:
Subject: Re: [Leica] Hot news! There is life in film yet.

>>>> People who have left their darkrooms behind have no apologies to make. 
>>>> And
> I'm one of them.<<<<<

Hi Mark,

I joined that club pretty soon after inkjet printers came along, improved 
and improved!  And the printing papers continued to improve in weight, 
surfaces and software for making adjustments to print improvement.

 I think my major turning point to go all inkjet printing was seeing some of 
Tina's prints at the Cape Cod Leica Seminar some years ago. Absolutely 
magnificent!  Another who produced some amazing prints was BD who also had 
influence in my decision.

However there are a few technical things that make inkjet the way to go. 
It's the simplicity of printing, adjusting and weights of and surfaces of 
papers. Capture a well exposed and beautiful image and with some printing 
skills, somewhat like those required to make great wet tray prints. A 16X20 
or 13X19 print can blow you away and sell for very good prices.

Then when you go out in the garden on a nice day, shoot up a storm of 
"pretty flowers!" Walk in house, down load card to computer, tweak the image 
slightly and in a matter of a few minutes your printer produces a super nice 
looking print!  Quicker than I can type this!

And some folks still want to screw around with shooting film, take it to the 
colour lab, pick-it up the next day or next week or depending on type of 
film mess around in a darkroom for several hours, wait for film to dry, 
edit, film in enlarger, make print in more solutions,  wash print for an 
hour, dry by whatever method, spot and then finally hold it up some hours 
later and ... "Oh sh....!"  :-( I better make another! OOPS!

Naw some how moving with the technical times of the day can be and are 
beneficial. But it still comes down to each his own in how one prefers to 
make prints and or film use.

And as I mentioned the other day about my GUNG HO grandson using film, he 
loves it! Even if he scans his negs and slides into the computer to do 
whatever it is he is doing, he considers a sort of "best of both worlds!" By 
the same token he is quite awesome shooting and printing digital images 
also!

cheers,
ted.