This one time, at band camp, "Scott Loveless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Monitor calibaration for the latest color printer does not match my existing calibration, the drone of computer fans, running out of printer ink and not having a shop within 100 miles that stocks your brand and model of printer cartridges, file corruption, hard disk crashes, computer freezes, Blue Screen Of Death (windows), the endless series of updates upgrades, yet another viruses that will format you hard drive, or a trojans and worms that lurk at every corner, the latest must-have tool is spy-ware posts all your images to a porn site, eyes ruined from staring at a computer screen for 16 hours, not to mention that damn chair gets uncomfortable after 30 mins, no two RAW formats are the same so I have to convert them, and if all else fails you get to listen to tech supports music selection for 3 1/2 hours whilst you ponder how something so simple could go so wrong, and why do my images not look the same on somebody elses computer when I send them, and if I get a new printer I have to re-calibrate the whole whole show again, then there is the endless software updates I need to keep up with and when I install them my email wont work any more, and if it does work you find you need a new computer to run it on because it is now so slow you could have developed, proofed and printer a catalog, and when you want to store the image its on some fragile disc that may or may not last 10 years, not forgetting the constant increase in card sizes you need because each new and expensive digital body means your existing media only holds 4 images now. The messy prints because the printer is having a bad cartridge day. This is all out of order but you'll get what I mean. > > I haven't been following this thread from the start, so this may be > > superfluous. Have we all forgotten the chemical stink? The sloppy dishes > > of developer, stop bath and fixer and the rest for colour? Never mind > > how careful you are there is always spillage -- especially with a dish > > 20" x 24" big. The acetic acid stop bath used for B&W is nasty, the > > developer and other chemicals (for colour) are carcinogenic. The > > combination with stale air is almost narcotic. The dim yellow light, or > > more often no light at all? Emerging after hours in this stinking > > chemical dungeon into the daylight where you are forced to wear dark > > glasses or see nothing. Gloves with holes that leak. Tongs that don't > > grip the paper properly? Stains on your jeans, shirt, shoes, flesh. > > Washing, drying or glazing? Prints that stick to the glazing sheets? Or > > those that go brown on the drum because it gets far too hot when the > > thermostat fails. The dust on the glass carriers in the enlarger. The > > heat from the lamps. Trying to focus accurately when the light is not > > bright enough because the negative is thick? Finally pouring all the > > solutions back into bottles or down the drain. Cleaning the bench > > vacuuming the floor trying to get rid of dust. We didn't all have fine > > air-filtered and conditioned darkrooms with film drying cabinets. Or > > automatic exposure controlled colour enlargers and C-41 developing > > machines. Spotting prints? What a relief to no longer have to mess with > > all this. This is all out of order but you'll get what I mean. -- "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
