I didn't say developing and printing B&W was hard. I said it seems a lot simpler to get a good negative or transparency with color film. For me it takes no skill - it's like using a P&S camera. Others have agreed, and some feel otherwise.
I've no problem with disagreements - in fact, a good part of my reason for posting the comment was to further discussion and see if there was anything I was missing, and get some dialogue going on a subject that is of interest to me since I rarely shoot color film. That said, I find it of great interest how discussions in general evolve. In this case it's gone from my finding color film easier to use, and not needing much skill from the photographer to get a good negative or slide (note: I never said print), to people arguing that it takes a lot of skill to make a good print from a transparency or color negative, to comments like yours, in which you say that it can't be too difficult to process and print B&W negative. Not knowing what your negatives and prints look like, I can't comment much other than to say that to get a negative and a print is no big deal in B&W, but to get a good, printable negative, and to make a good quality print, may be a little more complicated. Part of the B&W process is establishing the relationship between film speed, EI, developer, and printing paper in order to fully realize one's vision. But with color, since there's really no fooling around with developers, developer times, and the like, those factors are eliminated from the equation, and therefore the level of skill required to get a good color negative or transparency is reduced substantially or eliminated completely. Brendan wrote: > > He's got a point Shel, if I can develop > and print b&w it can't be that hard! -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/darkroom-rentals/index.html - 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 .
