----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Johnston Subject: Tell her it's better than hookers and booze
> > I think I feel some enabling coming on....... > > Mike, you are going to get me divorced if you keep this up. > > > > William Robb > > > What is it that you think you need, Bill? I don't need anything. An 8x10 Wisner or Zone VI and a couple of nice Schneiders would be kinda cool though. Maybe a half dozen film holders..... I printed some turn of the last century portraits for the local archives a while back. 8x10 sheets, the pictures were of some of the local Indian Chiefs from the late 1800's. I am pretty sure I have a picture of Sitting Bull around the house somewhere now. I made sure that I had one "flawed" print from each negative that I couldn't sell. This really turned me on to the idea of large contact prints. Even though the negatives were close to 120 years old, and on a nitrate substrate that wasn't optically perfect (and quite dangerous to work with), the prints had detail and tonality that would be next to impossible to match even today with a small format negative. William Robb
