Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'll second that (about an exciting time to be a photographer). Pre-digital most of my "serious" photography was with large-format 4x5 and 8x10 cameras. If digital had not come along I might not still have the hobby. There is only so much time you can spend in a darkroom while also trying to earn a living, having a family life and all that. I'll also second not drinking from an unlabeled beaker. I don't know if you have made platinum/palladium prints, but you pour the emulsion onto paper from a shot glass, and it sure looks like Scotch under a safelight -- not the time for an involuntary arm reflex. Ken On 4/22/2011 4:11 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >>I do think its the most exciting time to be a photographer since > Daguerre got together with Ni?pce to see if they could improve Ni?pce's > process resulting in Ni?pce dropping dead and Daguerre coming out with > the > Daguerreotype in 1839; proving the importance of rubber gloves in the > darkroom and don't drink from an unlabeled beaker. > And that's the history of photography as it relates to me. > - I'm off to go make a Rabuerreotype. > > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >