Digital BW, The Print

Bob Frost writes:

> So you are still using Photoshop 2 are you?

I use Photoshop 5.02 for all my photo work (and for anything else that
requires manipulating bitmapped images).  I stopped updating because the
5.02 version does everything I require, and as I've previously
mentioned, prudence dictates that one not update something that isn't
broken, as long as it does what one requires.

The current version of Photoshop corrupts the boot sectors on your disk
as part of its brain-dead activation code.  I'm very glad I didn't waste
money on that.

> And you won't be wanting ImagePrint 6, I suppose (back ontopic),
> or any of QImage's hundreds of updates, or Epson updated
> drivers, etc, etc.

Right.

> And you definitely won't be wanting an updated camera,
> will you?

Some of the cameras I use have had the same design for half a century,
so I don't need an "updated camera," whatever that is.

> I know it is the B&W list, but there are hundreds of shades of gray in
> between the two extremes!

I see computers and cameras and printers as tools, not as ends in
themselves.  I like to spend my time taking pictures, not updating
software or struggling to fix the mess made when I update software.  And
I don't see any reason to continue making Adobe or Microsoft rich by
buying expensive software that I don't need, especially when it contains
intrusive code that interferes with the safe and reliable operation of
my computers and dramatically increases the risk of downtime that will
prevent me from doing the work that I prefer to do.