Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I got to the point where I would get a splitting headache after about 15 minutes in the darkroom and I had a really good exhaust system. Those chemicals will get to you eventually. Tina On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:49 AM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at me.com> wrote: > I am with you both on this. I never liked darkroom work but I did it, and > I think I was pretty good at it. When we cleared the room to make it a > 'Lightroom' and I saw the corrosion on the metal window catches it sort of > brought home to me that I wasn't going back. > > Gerry > > Gerry Walden > +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or > +44 (0)797 287 7932 > www.gwpics.com > > On 21 May 2012, at 01:49, Tina Manley wrote: > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com