[Leica] Advice needed: Should I set up a darkroom or not?

[wharting at verizon.net (bill harting)]

Sure, set up a darkroom if you want to. You'll be committing yourself to 
many hours alone in the dark, and, if you're lucky, you'll receive 
satisfaction from creating unique photographs, and from the fact that you 
are practicing, successfully, an art many others have, and continue to 
practice (diminishing group that it may be).

There will be plenty of time to scan your prints for reproduction, and, if 
you find working with computers agreeable, to learning and practicing the 
post-processing that is a part of digital photography. Plenty of equipment 
to mess around with in either case, and plenty of skills to master.

For myself, I find the time I spend alone in the darkroom (with music or 
without) a gift of time away from the intensity of the world outside, where 
computers live.

bill h


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard" <richard-lists@imagecraft.com>
To: <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 4:30 AM
Subject: [Leica] Advice needed: Should I set up a darkroom or not?


> The last time I used a real darkroom was when I was in HS doing B&W 
> literally in the apartment's bathroom. I was really happy that a few years 
> ago I got a scanner, inkjet printer and photoshop, and after a couple 
> years of fighting with color management, I am getting decent prints from 
> the system. All these times, setting up a wet darkroom isn't even under 
> consideration because there just isn't enough space in the garage. Last 
> year I got the Jobo CPE-2 and now I am shooting 99% slides, and I scan the 
> slides in with the rest of the workflow pretty much the same as if I start 
> with digital capture
>
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