[alt-photo] Re: Official press release about HP large format negatives

[G Schmitz]

  OOPS, correction - it's late and I'm tired:

that DON'T eschew film, paper and a sink.

sorry --greg

On 7/15/10 12:43 AM, G Schmitz wrote:
>  "For a good look at the times of your life"
>
> Very good observations Tom.
>
> I'm skeptical, HP is just another huge multi-national trying to fish 
> money out of my pocket.  At the risk of setting off another battle 
> like last night, I would note that I and hundreds of thousands of like 
> me no longer work in the field of photography because of so called 
> digital photography.  Like I said last night, the folks in marketing 
> are now, me thinks, waking up to realities of the market that for so 
> long they thought they could control.  Indeed, maybe the PR 
> (propagandists) at HP and other digital concerns are worried by the 
> current trends, especially among youth, that eschew film, paper and a 
> sink.  Hell maybe it has something to do with the economy (smirk) I 
> don't know.
>
> --greg
>
>
> On 7/14/10 11:30 PM, Tomas Sobota wrote:
>> The HP blurb says: “We’re committed to helping professional 
>> photographers
>> simplify and accelerate the process for producing, showcasing and 
>> archiving
>> their art.”
>>
>> Wow, this sounds like Kodak all over again...
>>
>> I wonder if they are addressing the wrong problem? Presumably most of us
>> have the digital neg creation already under control, with the several
>> existing methods such as Mark's PDN, Mike Ware's and others? I don't 
>> know
>> what method does the Spanish photographer Isabel Muñoz use for her 
>> platinum
>> prints, which are more than 1 meter square and beautiful, but she 
>> certainly
>> did not have to wait for the HP "solution".
>>
>> I also wonder if this will be creating false expectations in many 
>> people.
>> Alt-photo is rather more than just the ability to create a large 
>> negative.
>> What comes after is more difficult.
>>
>> Tom Sobota
>> Madrid, Spain
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Loris 
>> Medici<mail at loris.medici.name>wrote:
>>
>>> See it here:
>>> http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/content_page.asp?cid=7-10053-10768
>>>
>>> It's a new paper preset...
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