Re: Another one bites the dust.

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From: Sandy King (sanking@clemson.edu)
Date: 07/29/02-08:52:05 PM Z

Bob Schramm wrote:

>Just learned today that Olympus is discontinuing the OM series of cameras.
>
> My question, how will profs. teach real photograpy if there are no
>more manual cameras?

Probably with digital cameras. But, exactly what is real photography?

> Second question. Is silver-gelatin about to become an alternative process?

Yes, and probably not a very popular one. After all, why would anyone
want to slave away in the dark to make monochrome silver prints that
are less archival than digital ink-jet prints? As for color, the
Epson pigment printers are already vastly superior to all wet
processed color prints in terms of stability.

Sandy King

>
>Bob Schramm
>
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> http://www.SchrammStudio.com
>
>also look at:
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> http://www.wlsc.wvnet.edu/www/pubrel/photo.html
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