Richard Kenward wrote: >....In a reminiscent mood.
Richard I started my first tentative steps in photography, exposing Ilford ortho-chromatic glass plates and developing them Ilford ID2 developer, under a red safe light and fixed in hypo and washed for 30 minutes. We skipped the wash in between developer and fixing in those days! It was still another couple of years before best practice(!)introduced water. If someone had told me that I would be taking photographs forty years later with a box that still looked like a camera - (well a 35mm anyway) and not a 10 x 8 Gandolphi with a pnuematic shutter and no film was being used, I didn't need to be in total darkness and I could process(?) the images by hitching the box or its transferable card to another small box and look at a screen and print out in the light, I would never have believed them. Computers were things that occupied shed loads of space and sent Sputniks into orbit, with less memory than we now have in a mobile phone! Cameras cannot get much smaller unless you have matchstick fingers to press the buttons! Transfer speed will increase at a breakneck rate and the materials will change from gold to tantalum. Something will replace the pixel driven light acceptors I am sure. We can only marvel at what the next forty years will bring in the world of imaging. The process has probably not even been thought of yet. Will we regard the now digital world with the same nostalgia? I hope the world is still here for those to enjoy it! Kindest regards Norman Childs Mobile: +44(0)7831 519217 Tel: +44(0)1256 767611 Fax: +44(0)1256 767612 Website: http://www.greenshoots.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Kenward Sent: 25 August 2004 14:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PRODIG] The demise of darkroom??? In message Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Neil Cooper writes snip >Rivals Eastman Kodak and Fuji are also revamping their film divisions >to cope with changing consumer demand. Kodak said last month that sales >of all digital products jumped 48% in the three months to June, while >revenue to traditional photography fell by 8%. Dear Neil/All It would be very sad to see a time were it was no longer possible to buy professional quality film and paper for that matter and of course those nasty chemicals. For anyone not used to the simplicity of shooting film ....OK, OK I know full well the downsides, but the simplicity of walking out with a pocket full of film and the only cable to take being the cable release takes some beating<BG> > >The dye is cast and I for one, after 20+ years in dank unhealthy >darkrooms, rejoices! Well yes there were indeed some pretty horribly and unhealthy darkrooms about, but thankfully I have always worked in ideal conditions, and as a result always enjoyed this side of the image creation business. Just as now when the image can be made or broken at the post shoot stage, the same went for the darkroom. Anyone who has not experienced film processing and printing work will have missed out on a whole area of wonderment of seeing images "grow" in the dimness, and the whole "hands on" work that created that perfectly balanced print....colour or monochrome. Always a problem to get two identical "manipulated" prints though! Things have moved on....where the enlargers once stood is a row of drum scanners and all the associated hi tech digital paraphernalia, but the atmosphere of mystery and anticipation is still there....the ventilation fan still spins, the outside world still is out of sight. Lets keep film for a little longer please! In a reminiscent mood. Richard -- Top quality drum scanning just a Post Office away....Sony Artisan checked too! Call 01873 890767 for a chat and to get our pdf and start seeing the benefits. =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
