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

[Greg Schmitz]

Sorry to hear that you feel that way Judy.  Perhaps you're only saying 
this because you're a gummist and don't want to have to mine and grind 
those pigments.  Sarcastically, I can't help but wonder how photography 
every got invented without, Kodak, Agfa or Dupont?  No doubt, you're not 
alone in your view.  Recently, I have had to go overseas to buy products 
that are similar to those that used to be made and sold by big 
corporations here (AMPEX, 3M, DuPont, Kodak); apparently the items were 
not profitable enough for the behemoths.  In all cases the products are 
now being manufactured by small concerns in other countries.  At the 
risk of getting too political - we've grown pretty dumb (and lazy) over 
here of late and swallowed the line of BS that has been dished out for us.

--g

On 7/17/10 8:19 PM, Judy Seigel wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, G Schmitz wrote:
>
>> .... If I use a digital printer, produced by a large corporation, 
>> who's getting it up the shorts?
>>
>> --greg
>
>
> Greg, I doubt you mean that message to be as sweeping as it sounds.... 
> I'd guess that the only way to make a print today without *anything* 
> "produced by a large corporation" would be via the proverbial rock & 
> chisel (& some corp has probably got a corner on the rocks & makes the 
> chisels)...
>
> Better, presumably, to skim the "large corps" for our own purposes -- 
> ie., why spend all that time chiseling rocks...?
>
> J.
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