On 27/08/2012 1:41 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 2:32 PM, William Robb
<[email protected]> wrote:
I bought a Q in the hope that something fun sized would bring some fun into
the picture, but the unfortunate fact is, everything I have done in the past
decade is dependant on sitting in front of a computer to make something I
can hang on the wall, and I hate sitting in front of a computer making
pictures.
Are there not still services which will take an SD card and return
printed contact sheets that you can then order prints from?
Or haven't the prices on 4x6 processing fallen so low that you could
simply get the contents of an SD card processed, use them as contacts,
then order prints from the keepers?
Surely the computer has not become a necessary part of the digital
photography workflow now? What about all the people, generally but not
necessarily older, who have P&S's who know nothing about computers?
Living in an older neighborhood I'm surrounded by folks who are
mystified by computers but still take photos.
It's an incredible shame if the digital seachange in photography has
effectively ended your creative career. There's gotta be a solution!
I'm one of those old codgers that actually likes the darkroom.
Yeah, I know, there were probably never more than three people like me
in the world at any one time.
I came into photography through the back door. I started in the
darkroom, and picked up a camera to feed that particular obsession.
The camera is not a means to an end, it is merely a necessary evil to
get to the part of the creative process that I enjoy.
I love the smell of fresh fixer, how developer on the skin is slippery,
and how the transition from slick to sticky in the stop bath happens so
quickly.
To this day I can't stomach Greek food because it smells like stop bath.
I treat the bruised shins from walking into the corner of a cupboard in
the dark as war wounds, the pain is something to be embraced, not feared
or loathed.
I truly believe everything looks better under amber light.
As my darkroom skills improved, so did my requirements for cameras that
would provide better quality negatives.
I went from 35mm to 6x7 to 4x5, just like everyone else, but I don't
think the whys of my progression were quite in tune with those of other
photographers.
So, no. Sadly, digital anything isn't really all that much of a solution
for me as far as creating anything beyond view screen snapshots.
Having said this, I'll go out dutifully and buy the next latest and
greatest camera body, and whatever lenses Pentax decides to market will
find their way into my house as well.
This is the curse I live under.
I knew starting to post on this mail list again was going to piss me off
and depress me.
I just knew it.
Thanks a ton.
:)
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William Robb
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