Mike et al,
Some of us have already stopped at daguerreotypes. I guess if we want to go back any beyong that we will have to begin making shrouds of Turin. ;-)
Bob Schramm
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>From: MICHAEL STEINLE
>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Re: Kodak Drops Pro Copy Film
>Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 21:30:24 -0400
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>Subject: Re: Kodak Drops Pro Copy Film
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> >
> >
> > Guy said in his message...
> >
> > >It is you and everyone else who abandoned it for digital who have killed
>it.
> > >I wonder what the recommended replacement will be when they drop Tmax...
>a
> > >large CCD?
> >
> > OK Guy, I'll take your bait:
> >
> > Whom have you blamed for the demise of wet plates and pre-coated platinum
> > papers? Correct me if I'm taking your "you killed it" comment the wrong
> > way but I can't help but think you're behaving in an historically daft
> > manner by making that kind of accusation.
>
>
>I wasn't aware that wet plate was gone. I've been using that method for
>years, as have quite a few other photographers. Perhaps film and digital is
>undergoing a demise and we are going back to wet plate. Next stop,
>Daguerreotypes.
>
>Mike
>