from Cotty:
>In this day and age, I can't think of one good reason, except
>for historical interest.
The darkroom aspect of photography is now a craft-art akin to oil painting. There's
some professionalism left, but it's quickly fading from prominence. Bummer.
Darkroom work will continue to show computer users a versatility not available in data
just the same as painters showed film people a new level of versatility in years past.
Increased automation seems to lead to a loss of general versatility but at the same
time adds new features.
In the film vs. oils war, film added detail that couldn't be captured by oils, but
oils could be put down in a way that would bring out the character of something, much
like words can a mental image.
In the digital vs. film war, negatives contain so much information that can be burned
in and worked with that (I've discussed this with a couple of them who have done LF
color & b&w, who have since gone modern) digital people envy, but the precise
crop/dodge/modify facility of digital is something to envy as well.
Collin
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