you guys have been punishingly transparent, even when you put a positive
spin on things.
when i was learning, i shot B&W. this was easy and convenient as my father
had a permanently set up B&W darkroom downstairs. when we moved from that
house, i changed over to about 50% slides, 30% color print, and 20% B&W.
when i went away to school, i either shot B&W for the school paper or color
print for myself. when i started out trying to make money, i went to 70%
slides and 30% digital. when the *istD came out, i started at 90% digital
and 10% slides and abandoned the slides after a month.
Herb....
----- Original Message -----
From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 8:12 AM
Subject: What Ever Happened to Chrome? was: Being There
You raise an interesting point, Herb. When I was a kid (like early
60's) my dad (who shot with a Yashica A tlr - the poor man's Mat,
which was the poor man's Rolleiflex <g>) shot probably 80% chrome.
He'd set up the projector, tape a sheet on the wall (we were too poor
for a proper screen) and we'd all sit down to look at a new set of
slides.
When he did shoot prints, it was inevitably b&w.
I recall that when I got my first 35mm camera, I shot a lot of chrome,
a lot of b&w prints, and pretty much no colour prints.
So, what killed chromes? The advent of C41? I can't believe that
alone did it. Because while it certainly made colour prints
economical for the snapshot consumer, the price differential didn't
kill black and white, it merely wounded it.
