Re: Just curious ... Related questions

[Paul Stenquist]

And there's the pure enjoyment of the darkroom. With one's favorite 
music playing in the background, the image emerges under the developer 
bath. Drop it in the stop bath, then in the fix, and wait anxiously for 
that moment when the lights can be turned on. There's a lot of magic in 
the process, and a lot of beauty in the finished print. As of yet, it 
can't be duplicated on the computer. And, at the moment, I'm making 
prints on my computer. But these are two different things, and both of 
them are good. My enlarger lenses are as prized as my camera  lenses 
and for the same reasons. It's all part of the game of making pictures.
Paul

On Dec 27, 2003, at 9:42 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:

Someone said:

Everything is on the computer now.  Can't imagine using the real 
darkroom
again.  Other than e-bay or a garage sale, what are you guys going 
with
your old darkroom equipment?
No, everything is not "on the computer now," at least not for 
everybody.  My
old darkroom equipment, for example, is used to make silver-based 
photographic
B&W prints, which can then be viewed by people who do everything on the
computer, and which will cause them wonder and amazement as they look 
perplexed
trying to understand how such a thing can be created without a 
software,
profiles, electronic printing and recording devices, and how it is 
that the
blacks are so black <LOL>