Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/05

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Subject: [Leica] Sic transit gloria darkroom
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 17:48:06 -0500
References: <6a7544a60911051436s23b203bkfe79e4243e59103@mail.gmail.com>

Darkroom printing is a beautiful art.

So are silk screening and lithography.

Soon, darkroom printing will occupy the same niche.

There is nothing wrong with that. Times and technology just change  
with time. And, let's face it, photography has often been considered  
more technology than art by much of the art community.

ric


On Nov 5, 2009, at 5:36 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:

> Excuse the random keystroke that sent my last message before I  
> finished it.
> Photographic opinions have certainly changed.
>
> Larry Z
>
> - - - - - -
>
> At 03:09 PM 11/5/2009, you wrote:
>
> I'm glad digital came along when it finally did, although it was 45
>
> years too late for what it could of done during my career.
>
>
> Dr. ted
>
>
> I agree totally, Ted, and the bottom line is - if darkroom processing
>
> yielded a better result, even with the possibility of chemical
>
> poisoning, I would still be doing darkroom processing today; however,
>
> I get better results from lightroom and digital printing than I could
>
> ever get in the darkroom.  There might be some professional darkroom
>
> aficionados who would disagree and could eek better results from a
>
> file in the darkroom, but I'm sure if Ansel Adams were alive today he
>
> would be printing totally digitally in the lightroom.  There is a lot
>
> of nostalgia and elitism connected with darkroom work that I'm not
>
> sure is fully deserved.
>
>
> Tina
>
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Replies: Reply from richard.lists at gmail.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] Sic transit gloria darkroom)
In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Sic transit gloria darkroom)