Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale <stevekale@...> wrote:
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> Well then I'm glad you're relaxed about it.  It would be nice to hear less
> bemoaning over the gradual disappearance of film and associated equipment.

Playing a huge roll in so much great great art that is so personally significant to myself 
and others, technologies that evolved over a century, being replaced by something that 
will not work as well for me, nor is remotely cost effective...
How could I not bemoan it?
In 100 years, a Minimata, a Pepper, made by the master artist, will probably still be 
available for us to experience. Will some potentially important image, captured today with 
a dslr, printed on EEM with UC inks, be there next to those? If so, will it communicate with 
any richness compared to those? Will anyone even see, or care about, the difference?
How's that for codger talk?

But I'd really like to stop this particular back and forth, it feels too argumentative, probably 
more than either of us would prefer.

More on topic, I hope- constantly people come to me, and these lists, wondering how to 
address this quickly changing technology, and how to spend their money, realize their 
vision on paper, etc.. It's a big problem facing many people, disapearing labs are a bigger 
factor than materials right now.
I find this topic tiresome, there seem to be "sides" which is not helping. I constantly have 
to re-evaluate my own statements as well. But it's just too relevant to our work these days. 
On the one hand, finding some rational solutions is important, on the other I suspect we're 
just at the mercy of the changing tides and we all need to keep the exchange ongoing, just 
to keep up.
Obviously it's Sunday.
Tyler