Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark - I think you have written exactly what I feel. I loved the darkroom when I worked in it. I still have most of my enlargers and other equipment. I know I'll never work there again. Chemicals are too bad. Digital is too good. We can't go back, but I miss it in a lot of ways. I remember adjusting my enlargers and using timers and my wonderful Jobo, but it's all a memory now. Tina On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > I was just this week back in Portland Oregon where I'd spent most my life > going through my storage cubicle looking at my Beseler 5x7 cold light and > Omega D2V and Aristo VC Head. I refuse to just give the head away it feels > like the day before yesterday when I spent a grand on it and it changed my > darkroom life. The enlargers I may have to pay somebody to take out of > there. > However like 99.99% of all photogs my darkroom life is a past life. I > remember it as a dream. > I'm now shooting digital looking at my camera going "I wonder what this > button does?". No longer the master of my domain. I'm just figuring it all > out like everybody else. > I also came upon in my storage cubicle a box of enlarger glass mainly El > Nikkor's but I found a 100mm Schneider Componon which I got used at Pro > Photo Oregon for 70 bucks a few years ago and when I got back to my studio > I > looked up the B&H price and it was like 500 bucks. Making it the best deal > I > ever made in my photo existence. I can use in on my Viso system and > possibly > rig it up to other camera systems one would thing. With enough super glue > and duck tape. The writing was all ready on the wall as to darkroom gear of > great value the day before yesterday now having close to zero value. > I look at as a positive though. > its an exciting revolution time in photography for such a thing to be > happening. And we get to be in on it on the ground floor. > Any lecture I might be making on split printing or other darkroom or > photography work I did for decades falls under the heading of "history of > photography". In ten years it will go full circle and there will be a > resurgence of interest in shooting and maybe printing film. By then there > will be one company in Croatia making film for forty dollars a roll. > > - - from my iRabs. > Mark Rabiner > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com