On Mar 28, 2006, at 7:16 AM, Leon Altoff wrote:
The dark room may not be an inherently magical place, but it is a place of ritual more than any computer. What the darkroom lacks is an undo button. One wrong step, one incorrect movement in the ritual and you have to start again.
I don't know, I have plenty of ritual in the digital darkroom. The only place where you can't undo in the darkroom is at the developing stage of the process, but by then all the decisions are made and locked into your enlarger, so you can just run another print. I'd compare it to trying to do too much on the computer while running a big print and causing the printer to pause and foul the print -- you just cut it off, throw it away and print again.
Really, the processes are remarkably similar. It's only perception that causes them to be different.
-Aaron
