mike wilson wrote: >> From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> David J Brooks wrote: >>> My personal stuff that I really like, is printed, eventually. I just >>> wish B&W was a bit more readily available for prints, as a few years >>> ago. >> That's a pretty sensible way of doing things and it's probably how most >> people do it. >> >> In fact, if you think about it for a moment, it's the old way of doing >> things back in the film era that was absurd: You had to get prints made >> before you could decide which of your shots were worth printing! Sheer >> madness, but it seemed to all of us (I think) a reasonable state of >> affairs at the time -- mostly because there was no alternative at the >> time, I suppose. > > <cough> Kodachrome! <cough>
Agreed. It was a good alternative (well, E6 was) and it was, in fact, how I worked. But it was never more than a tiny minority of mainstream film users (even if you include E6 as well). And by the time Fuji Frontier and similar machines printing from slides fast and commonplace, the digital nails were already in the film coffin. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
