[Leica] Hot news! There is life in film yet.

[lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)]

Ted, mon ami

Once I've read your comments I was almost decided sell my old Focomat  
IC with an excellent Focotar.... that I've never used after 10 or more  
years... and go to a printer, but I don't have many time to print and   
I'm too a nostalgic guy ...., but I will remember this, your comments  
are always right.

cheers
Lluis


El 18/05/2011, a las 17:50, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca>  
escribi?:

> Mark Rabiner OFFERED:
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Hot news! There is life in film yet.
>
>>>>> People who have left their darkrooms behind have no apologies to  
>>>>> make. And
>> I'm one of them.<<<<<
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> I joined that club pretty soon after inkjet printers came along,  
> improved and improved!  And the printing papers continued to improve  
> in weight, surfaces and software for making adjustments to print  
> improvement.
>
> I think my major turning point to go all inkjet printing was seeing  
> some of Tina's prints at the Cape Cod Leica Seminar some years ago.  
> Absolutely magnificent!  Another who produced some amazing prints  
> was BD who also had influence in my decision.
>
> However there are a few technical things that make inkjet the way to  
> go. It's the simplicity of printing, adjusting and weights of and  
> surfaces of papers. Capture a well exposed and beautiful image and  
> with some printing skills, somewhat like those required to make  
> great wet tray prints. A 16X20 or 13X19 print can blow you away and  
> sell for very good prices.
>
> Then when you go out in the garden on a nice day, shoot up a storm  
> of "pretty flowers!" Walk in house, down load card to computer,  
> tweak the image slightly and in a matter of a few minutes your  
> printer produces a super nice looking print!  Quicker than I can  
> type this!
>
> And some folks still want to screw around with shooting film, take  
> it to the colour lab, pick-it up the next day or next week or  
> depending on type of film mess around in a darkroom for several  
> hours, wait for film to dry, edit, film in enlarger, make print in  
> more solutions,  wash print for an hour, dry by whatever method,  
> spot and then finally hold it up some hours later and ... "Oh  
> sh....!"  :-( I better make another! OOPS!
>
> Naw some how moving with the technical times of the day can be and  
> are beneficial. But it still comes down to each his own in how one  
> prefers to make prints and or film use.
>
> And as I mentioned the other day about my GUNG HO grandson using  
> film, he loves it! Even if he scans his negs and slides into the  
> computer to do whatever it is he is doing, he considers a sort of  
> "best of both worlds!" By the same token he is quite awesome  
> shooting and printing digital images also!
>
> cheers,
> ted.
>
>
>
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