Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]David Morton wrote: >The Guardian and The Observer is closing their wet darkroom this week >after a long and distinguished history with six of the darkroom >technicians facing an uncertain future, although some positions will >be,available in the scanning department, writes Reuel Golden. > >The closure is a sign of the times as papers become more reliant on >digital technology and picture desks increasingly source picture >agencies for images, rather than using staff photographers For >example this year Guardian Newspapers Ltd signed a contract with Allsport >where for an annual retainer, it can use editorially as many pictures as it >likes taken by agency photographers. > >In this digital environment, where pictures are electronically >captured, stored and transmitted, it is believed that management within the group regarded a space-consuming, 18-hour seven-day operation as >economically unviable.>>>>>>>>>>> >-------------------------------------------------------------------- BOY ARE THEY IN FOR A HELL OF SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!!!! And David the truth of it is, as discovered by a leading daily here in Canada who went all digital and dumped their darkroom staff, that the digital cameras and attended equipment and results at the end of the first year of operation without film, cost them more to operate than .....using real film! I love economics when it gets stuffed back into the face of the money grubbing bean counters! It was they who said......"this digital stuff will save you money, get rid of all that film stuff and people in the darkroom who you wont need nor have to pay anymore!!!!" ted