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Date: | Tue, 13 Apr 1999 09:45:00 -0400 |
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Re: Leland:
>Black and white glass neg.s look great from last century. Estimations of
>digital degradation are ten percent per annum. My color 35mm slides on
>kodak 25 asa from 1967 look great, so too the agfa and the Tri X pan from
>early sixties. Let's hear it for silver....
Hi-yo Silver! I pause while considering buying a nice new digital camera,
wondering if I'll be able to look at anything I photographed twenty or
thirty years from now. Most of what we shoot isn't printed, and from
digital, much is printed cheaply. I have file drawers from the 60's and
70's with beautiful enlarged "contact" sheets and selected prints much on
acid free paper, most on RC paper. I know I'll always have those images.
But now that resolution on digital is improving, and considering the ease
and control there is in editing and manipulating images, all I really miss
is the fantastic resolution of 35mm and 2 1/4 work.
Actually, now that I'm about to convert my old darkroom to a guest
bathroom, I know I'll also miss working in my own private creativity space
(No. You can't come in now, I'm developing!), and the acrid smell of fixer.
Hi-yo, silver...away! --Jim Rhodes
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