Darkroom Advantage

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:12:39 +0200,
(Philip Homburg) wrote:

In article ,
David Starr wrote:

I enjoy my wet darkroom & have no desire to
change.



That certainly is a key difference: I have no desire to sit in a darkroom
if I don't have to.



July 11, 2007, from Lloyd Erlick,

That certainly is a key difference: I have no
desire to sit in front of a computer if I
don't have to.

regards,
--le

In article ,
Lloyd Erlick Lloyd at @the-wire. dot com wrote:
That certainly is a key difference: I have no
desire to sit in front of a computer if I
don't have to.

IMHO, digital processing of color images provides the opportunity for better
prints. So the "don't have to" part is valid only if you desire unmodified
prints from negatives.

(Or do you optimize contrast, dodge and burn, retouch, and sharpen 35mm
frames? And then there is slide film as well)



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In article , wishful
thinker
says...
What reasons can I give to someone just starting out in photography to
convince them to choose conventional darkroom procedures over digital?
My nephew is interested in photography as a hobby but digital is so
dominant in the market that it is hard for me to persuade him to use
film and a darkroom.


How about making a pinhole camera with him and running off a few shots?
That's about as far from the instant gratification of digital as you can
get, and might give him a clearer idea of the direction he'd like to
take. Or try playing on the Harry Potter thing, and make out that the
darkroom is the sort of place an alchemist/magician would hang out. :-)

Nicholas O. Lindan spake thus:

"Philip Homburg" wrote

'Soon', the general public will have forgotten what images captured on
B/W film look like and you be able get a away with horrible, cheesy
effects.

Silver-Gelatine prints - the few the museum has - will be hanging
with its sole surviving Daguerreotype.

Visitors will be astounded: "Look Marge, a photograph
can't get inside and walk around in."

Maybe the pointy-headed museum-curator types will come up with a new
50-cent designation for such curiousities: "Static planographic print",
or some such.


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David Nebenzahl wrote:
Maybe the pointy-headed museum-curator types will come up with a new
50-cent designation for such curiousities: "Static planographic print",
or some such.

It's just something "everything must be new" people will have to
get over. While nothing within site of my home is over 100 years
old, a few miles away are city streets that were old 2,000 years ago.

I've never been to Las Vegas, but I wonder what it's like to live
in a city where almost everything was built less than 60 years ago.

Geoff.
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