Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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