I know you are joking, but the introduction of Jill Enfield's new book (Jill Enfield's Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes: Popular Historical and Contemporary Techniques) makes the point that when photography was introduced and started to become mainstream, painters throught that their craft was dead. It seems silly to us to think of painters getting rid of their painting gear, canvases, and paints just because they now owned a camera (or their neighbor did)... but that's pretty much what has happened when it comes to film, and especially darkroom equipment.
One reason that Alternative Processes appeal to me is that "regular" film work lasting into the future depends upon manufacturers that continue to produce film and photographic papers (something that is going to end at some point and already has for some beloved films and papers). The only alternative (impractical for most of us) is to have a stockpile of film and paper for our lifetimes. Alternative Processes do not rely on such things. You size your own papers with the light-sensitive combination of chemicals and then they develop in other chemicals (or simply react to UV light). Your negatives can be produced on your inkjet printer (from digital images) or produced analog on paper negatives (possibly adding the fun of building your own large format camera). It's a big world with lots of different techniques to explore and hopefully master. On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Rob Studdert <distudio.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Cool, I got shot on a 10x8 wet plate tintype today, digital will soon be dead > :) > > On 25 July 2013 13:06, Doug Franklin <do...@nutdriver.org> wrote: >> A soldier in Afghanistan has been experimenting with making tin type prints >> of his colleagues: >> >> http://twentytwowords.com/2013/07/24/soldier-in-afghanistan-photographs-comrades-using-civil-war-era-technique-14-pics/ >> >> -- >> Doug "Lefty" Franklin >> NutDriver Racing >> http://NutDriver.org >> Facebook "NutDriver Racing" >> Sponsored by Murphy >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) > Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours > Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- "Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art" - Peter Galassi -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
