Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "jimj1946" 
<jimj1946@y...> wrote:

> Actually I have been doing wet darkroom work since the late 50's. 
> And to me it has always been a joy and a learning experience. To 
> tell you the truth, I have always cosidered myself more of a 
> printer, than a photographer.


EXACTLY!  There have always been SOME people like that - Ansel 
Adams, for instance.   That's why I used the vintage sports car 
analogy.   They don't own those cars for transportation.  If they 
did they'd buy a Camry.  They like to tinker.

The problem is that people like you (people who LIKE to tinker) are 
totally out of touch with the mainstream world of people who just 
want to get decent prints of their photos.   That's why newbies get 
scared naway from this field.

> If I expected a turn key operation, I would just talk my
> shots to the local one hour photo place and be done with it.

You have one hour photo places that do decent black and white prints 
from digital files?   They sure don't have any such thing around 
here.