----- Original Message ----- From: "Mat Hayashibara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Mike Rice, the owner of Fullerton Camera, told me last week that a couple > of the local junior colleges have completely gotten out of darkrooms in > their photography programs. If the student market isn't there, I think a > large part of the heart of monochrome is going to go south. At my uni i've been the president of the student photographic society for a couple of years now, and at the Freshers Fayre, when people signup, although we do get the 'I got a new x MP nice silver anti-red-eye camera, can i still join?' type of questions i have to say that a big 'selling point' is that we do have a reasonably well equiped darkroom and the majority of people are interested in it. We also give them a free BW film upon joining. Now how many of them actually do come to the induction sessions and how many actually use it is another matter :) I believe however it is a great way to learn about photography and the nature and physics of it. True, some people are put off by the chemicals, different dev/printing steps etc, but i doubt those people will shoot anything more interesting than a couple of ducks at their local park. Sad to see Ilford go. Suddenly the bottom shelf of my fridge becomes more interesting...quite a few ilfords there at the mo... :) * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
