| beejaybee |
| (Marvin) |
| 14/01/2008 07:44 |
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Re: Has technology made photography better??
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Why not?
I think this is perhaps the central issue in terms of film vs. digital.
The magic moment with traditional monochrome wet process is watching the image slowly emerge under safelighting in the developer tray. The first time I saw this I knew I would always be interested in photography. However convenient it is, the digital darkroom just doesn't grab me in the same way.
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For me the final image is all that counts and, especially with a good printer paper such as PermaJet Royal, I find that digital gives me great results that do stand up to anything I used to produce with film.
Technically, you're right. But the emotion that goes with producing the image is missing - replaced by a plethora of concerns about colour matching, ink stability etc. - I'm not saying that the wet process was perfect in this respect, in fact it clearly wasn't, but at least we had other things to do instead of waiting for the print to emerge from the printer. (Is there enough ink left in the magenta tank to finish the next print, or do I change it first and throw away the expensive liquid remaining?)