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rec.photo.darkroom Discussion: Re: P.S. Am I Crazy For Building a Darkroom In the Spectre of Digital Mania?
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From: Gilbert Dumont (***argentic_at_email.domain.hidden)
Date: Mon Feb 16 2004 - 20:56:50 EST

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 04:39:50 GMT, "SofaKing"
<sofaking_at_sofaking!@#$.com> wrote:

>Just wondering. My main reason is that I'm a control freak and at some point
>think there will be an affordable direct to paper enlarger. Currently I'm
>scanning with a Epson 3200 and FTP'ing my files to a local photo store. The
>results are "ok" but...I still haven't been able to get them to produce a
>color profile I can live with. Also, I'm just wondering what makes people in
>darkrooms still tick. I'm probably one of the rare people going from digital
>back into the wet world. I think there's room for both still.
>

I use digital, but it's the wet darkroom that make sme tick. I spend a
lot of time before my computer, writing articles on B&W photography.
But I don't see the fun in digitally manipulating images. I like my
wet darkroom much much better. It's the magic of working wit real
materials, not virtual materials. It's also about being in a confined
dark space fully concentrated on sculpting lightbeams. In the darkroom
I completely forget about the outside world with it's problems and
stress. I can destress in a darkroom which I cannot in front of a
computer screen.

A very close friend of mine is a computer expert working for our
national tax offices. He does computers, programming languages and
image manipulations every day. Guess what his hobby is... the wet
darkroom. Computers are work for him. B&W baryta prints are his
passion.

Gilbert

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