Bob W. wrote: > It's my intuition that this is one of the things that bothers many people > about digital printing (though most might not admit it): that it *is* easier.
This has been true for literally the whole history of photography, as each improvement in convenience makes the hard-won expertise of the previous generation of practitioners obsolescent. It was true in the 1880s when the "hand camera craze" began and started to put portrait studios out of business. We're not as unlucky as the English colloquial photographer Paul Martin--he was a woodcutter for newspapers before mechanical reproduction came along. In a period of about six years, the entire woodcutting-for-repro profession was completely obliterated. --Mike - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
