Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Different coffee (or tea) for different drinkers. I didn't say everyone is moving to iPad, I said a small number of people are ... :-) As for inkjet prints. It's true, at portfolio reviews and of all the gallery owners I talk to, inkjet is now the norm and does not carry any negative connotation. That particular fight has been long over. I know on hardcore dark room printer (he also shoots with a 4x5) and even he prints ~30% of his stuff on the inkjet. There aren't many darkroom printer only anymore unless your name is John Sexton and such :-) On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > I do see a lot of paper being sold as in you walk into Adorama or Calumet > its the first thing you see. At B&H you go up the stairs look to your > right > up the platform and it goes on for a couple of hundred feet. > Tons of boxes printing paper. And printing cartridges. And portfolios to > put > them in. I can't be the only one printing out there. > And on Thursdays I hit the galleries in Chelsea and a LOT of what I'm > seeing > is inkjet and I'm not seeing too many iPads hanging on the walls. > Just in that area there are well over a hundred galleries which feature > photography most or all of the time. It is pretty much the center of the > photographic art world. > And the writing is on the wall with the prints. > Inkjet printing is the dominant printing form in color photography. And in > black and white it won't be long. > People who have left their darkrooms behind have no apologies to make. And > I'm one of them. > > > Mark > > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > mark at rabinergroup.com > Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > > > > > > From: Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 21:38:49 -0700 > > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] Hot news! There is life in film yet. > > > > Younger people generally don't print for two very simple reasons > > > > First, even a budget photo printer - which of course we know is thousand > > times better and cheaper than what most amateurs can get either by doing > > their darkroom prints or commercial Kodak prints in the old days - is > > expensive. A Holga is $30, but they need to buy and process film, and > then > > may be a scanner. > > > > Even they use digital, the cost factor of a printer still is there. > > > > Second, there is no benefit for them to print. Oh, I love prints myself - > > but this demographic is much happier with web pics. Yes, I know this is > your > > criticism, but you know something? With the current technology, if it > looks > > good on the screen, and if there are enough "bits" in the file (and film > is > > 35mm or even medium format), then someone can make it look good coming > out > > an inkjet printer, so there's nothing they need to prove. > > > > Heck, in some Portfolio Review, a small number of people are starting to > use > > their iPad to show their work. Of course they better do their research > and > > know that it is OK with a particular reviewer, but it's the start of a > > trend. > > > > > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > > > >> I'm not all that hung up on darkroom prints. > >> I'm fine with inkjets. > >> I think if they scanned their negs and had s short stack of inkjets I'd > be > >> real impressed with their choice of scans instead of captures and not be > >> inclined to argue with them. If their photographs were good. > >> Any argument on choice of tools is irreverent if both people bring > prints > >> to > >> the table. As that's only thing which matters is the results. Not how > they > >> got there. > >> > >> > >> Mark > >> > >> > > > > -- > > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> > > // richard's personal photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all > previous > > replies in your msgs. ] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]