Digital BW, The Print

Francis Ford <francisford45@y...> wrote:
> All that stuff about Weston is very romantic but not
> true. 

What are you denying? Parkinsons? His use of pyro? 

I don't claim he was killed by pyro, but many smart people suspect
that. Call it superstition, call it common wisdom. 

I don't need Msgr Bush to tell me to refrain from certain behaviors...
most wisdom is self-evident. 

If you have a basis for denying the likely danger of pyro state it. If
you have no basis other than your own survival to middle age, you
won't step up to that plate.  

I can't swear that pyro killed Weston, but he did show the effects on
his fingernails and he did die with Parkinsons symptoms. Hmmm. 

Parkinsons is a constellation of around 5 related symptom sets. Some
manafestations are sometimes said to be genetic (an easy out) and some
have been demonstrated conclusively to be chemically induced (eg  bad
"designer drugs" one of which looked to me, a non-scientist, like
pyrogallic acid in the photomicroscopy I mentioned earlier). 

http://www.parkinson.org/site/pp.asp?c=9dJFJLPwB&b=100132

Junkies often live to ripe old ages, some smokers even live past 59.

>I have had a B&W darkroom for more than 35 years > 

Absolutely irrelevant. 

 Yes my
> finger nails were black, a badge of honor.

Like drinking and driving. 
 
I have used amidol
> a lot,but not pyro.

We began talking about pyro.