[Leica] Technology, Ted and Tina

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

>>> ;-) I admire anybody who takes the time and makes the effort to still
>>> work
>> in the darkroom these days, but I don't think any photo made in the
>> darkroom
>> is automatically "better" than any photo printed on an inkjet
>> printer.<<<<<<<,,


The problem is 90 percent of what comes out of peoples home darkrooms are
inept as in totally unacceptable in any real sense. And most of these people
are smart enough to not show them to you.
It's  just darned hard to make a good darkroom print and people who are
"hobbyists" almost never have close to the time nor commitment to be
bothering with it. They take the first thing which comes out and then on to
the next neg and that's good enough for them and they're having fun.

Its just not how their ideal Ansel nor Edward nor Imogen printed.
Spending an hour on a  single print is nothing.
Gong through a dozen sheets of paper to get a final keeper is nothing.

But as Ted just said a digital print can be done with the touch of the print
button and I feel that is true and have first out prints to show you to
prove it.
- we don't have to leave it at that and be on to the next shot before it
even comes out of the printer.
We can wait and look at it and make adjustments just as we did with a
darkroom print. Though its much easier to get away with not having to do
that. I have plenty of those to show you too. They tend to look a bit
better.
Crafted.

Mark William Rabiner