Digital BW, The Print

From: Dana Myers <dana.myers@...>
Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2012 11:15 AM
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: What Asa to shoot tmax400 with standard
development

>>A little OT there, David.

You're probably right. I just have gotten so tired of hearing all this
nonsense over so many years. 'Plastic papers are wonderful, Eastern Bloc
films and papers are just as good as Kodak, Agfa and Ilford, magazine
articles singing the praises of B&W papers from Outer Slobovia that were so
incredibly bad they were unusable for even the most mundane purpose, wonder
gadgets that didn't work at all staunchly defended by so-called experts.'
The worst I ever saw was an expensive spot meter supposedly designed
specifically for the Zone System, whose manufacturer didn't bother to learn
anything at all about the Zone System before designing it. The meter took
multiple readings and averaged them!!

Mostly I hate to see photographers just starting out being led down the
garden path by manufacturers touting products they know are inferior, aided
by know-it-alls who always think the best they can do must be the best
anyone can do. It is hard enough to learn everything necessary to produce
good work without so many people shouting in their ears that clearly
inferior products and materials  are really  just as good as everything
else. They are not, and claiming so doesn't make it true.


David Kachel

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