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Re: [Digital BW] Re:OT: Film or digital

2008-09-19 by Gary Weaver

I take a survival stance. Digital is another tool, but I don't bank on it (my hobby, I don't cater to buyers).

gar

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On 9/18/2008 at 10:55 PM Dennis  Baecht wrote:

>I've given this digital stuff a try, and it just doesn't do anything 
>for me. It does have a good place in news and family photography. 
>I started shooting large format B&W 40 years ago on the 27 of this 
>month. I stopped for a year to shoot strictly digital and I'm going to 
>quit digital for anything but family snapshots. This thread started me 
>evaluating how the last year has gone, and I made the decision to 
>clean my darkroom up and start it up again. If they stop making film I 
>still know how to make wet colloidial plates and I use Pyro and have 
>enough film frozen to last 20 years.
>You folks can have all this techno stuff.
>Dennis
>--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, AnnMarie 
>Tornabene <faeofavalon@...> wrote:
>>
>> I still shoot film as well (hell, I am still shooting with an ALL-
>MANUAL camera!) and use an Epson 4990 flatbed scanner. I am looking 
>into getting the fluid mount soon, too. It works perfectly for me :)
>> 
>> AnnMarie Tornabene
>> www.annmarietornabene.net
>>
>
>
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