Leaving the Wet Darkroom?

Thanks - if it was up to my wife all the darkroom stuff would be long
gone. "come on honey, you're never going to use it again" etc. I do
indend on keeping it if anything it wouldn't generate much in the way
of cash when sold so it's not worth selling. And of course there are
things that may need a trip down there, or I may find the time. I do
plan on getting a scan made of a favorite negative and seeing what I
think. Kodak now makes an RC silver based paper processed in B&W
chemicals specifically for digital printers. I think it mey be tonable
as well. Gonna give that a try.

-Josh

Thsnks - I looked at the mpix web site and I am intrigued by the
Digital B&W paper they use - actual silver based. I figure I'll get my
local very trustworthy lab to do my processing, more expensive than the
big-box stores but definitely worth it.

-Josh

Thsnks - I looked at the mpix web site and I am intrigued by the
Digital B&W paper they use - actual silver based. I figure I'll get my
local very trustworthy lab to do my processing, more expensive than the
big-box stores but definitely worth it.

-Josh

On 1 Jan 2005 19:10:56 -0800, "Josh" wrote:

Any thoughts on all of this?

Yeah

1) Digital isn't stable so you will be leaving your children a
lot of pretty bad prints.

2) If you think that working in the darkroom is time consuming
wait until you play with digital !


Regards,

John S. Douglas, Photographer - http://www.puresilver.org
Father of Sean (3) and Erin (18m)

My intent though is to have digital prints made on standard chemical
process paper. Wouldn't they be as stable as prints from film?
Especially if I use Kodak's new silver based digital paper which I just
learned exists. I was using RC paper in my darkroom anyway, I never had
the desire to switch to FB.

And I do agree that digial can be time consuming - but you can jump in
and out of it, and my computer is right in the kitchen out in the open.
I used to disappear into the darkroom and be totally out of it.
Thanks

-Josh

In article .com,
"Josh" wrote:

My intent though is to have digital prints made on standard chemical
process paper. Wouldn't they be as stable as prints from film?
Especially if I use Kodak's new silver based digital paper which I just
learned exists. I was using RC paper in my darkroom anyway, I never had
the desire to switch to FB.

FB is "Wet Darkroom". If you are not using FB at least sometimes for
Fine Printing you should go to digital and join the rest of the
hobbiests it just will make some of our work more $$$ and important....,
IMOP. But then I wouldn't "Not" print on FB.


And I do agree that digial can be time consuming - but you can jump in
and out of it, and my computer is right in the kitchen out in the open.
I used to disappear into the darkroom and be totally out of it.

If you don't have the time, you don't have it - you'll see there's
little difference.

--
LF Website @ http://members.verizon.net/~gregoryblank

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President,
or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong,
is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable
to the American public."--Theodore Roosevelt, May 7, 1918

In article .com,
"Josh" wrote:

My intent though is to have digital prints made on standard chemical
process paper. Wouldn't they be as stable as prints from film?
Especially if I use Kodak's new silver based digital paper which I just
learned exists. I was using RC paper in my darkroom anyway, I never had
the desire to switch to FB.

FB is "Wet Darkroom". If you are not using FB at least sometimes for
Fine Printing you should go to digital and join the rest of the
hobbiests it just will make some of our work more $$$ and important....,
IMOP. But then I wouldn't "Not" print on FB.


And I do agree that digial can be time consuming - but you can jump in
and out of it, and my computer is right in the kitchen out in the open.
I used to disappear into the darkroom and be totally out of it.

If you don't have the time, you don't have it - you'll see there's
little difference.

--
LF Website @ http://members.verizon.net/~gregoryblank

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President,
or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong,
is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable
to the American public."--Theodore Roosevelt, May 7, 1918

On 1 Jan 2005 19:10:56 -0800, "Josh" wrote:

The difference for me is in the experience. Darkroom work feels like
"craft", while computer-aided imaging feels like "engineering".

Chris Ellinger
Ann Arbor, MI
USA

On 1 Jan 2005 19:10:56 -0800, "Josh" wrote:

The difference for me is in the experience. Darkroom work feels like
"craft", while computer-aided imaging feels like "engineering".

Chris Ellinger
Ann Arbor, MI
USA

In article ,
Chris Ellinger wrote:

On 1 Jan 2005 19:10:56 -0800, "Josh" wrote:

The difference for me is in the experience. Darkroom work feels like
"craft", while computer-aided imaging feels like "engineering".

Chris Ellinger
Ann Arbor, MI
USA

I think it feels worse than that, having worked in engineering
I would rather work numbers sometimes than retouch, someone's face
at 200% on a screen (Gives me the willies).