Digital BW, The Print

>
> He was good at picking stuff.

Hence his name?  :  )

> And shooting white picket fences.
> His book I just looked at at Powells last week and his shots didn't  
> look all
> that bad.

Really?  I couldn't believe how bad his compositions were.

>
> Give me Ilford Multigrade anyday though.
>

Ilford was ok.  I still think Oriental was better, though. Maybe  
because I learned on Oriental, and could drive up from San Diego to  
Oriental's office in Newport Beach, call Al Belson on the phone (he  
used to say "I'm the world's tallest midget...")  ask him stuff, use  
Oriental's variable contrast head with its "rat" (probe)...  Those  
were the days, though, eh?  I don't miss lots of things about wet  
printing, but I do miss some things...

James





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