RE: digital camera blues-Breaking News Bulletin!!

But wait... you (we) can have it all!

Late summer De Vere, a UK based manufacturer of high-end darkroom
equipment, announced their new digital enlarger (504S). It produces,
via a computer, CD, Smartmedia reader, email,etc., a "virtual"
negative for printing color or B&W on traditional paper up to 20X24
inches.

go to: http://www.odyssey-sales.co.uk/products/browse.asp?range=55

So, can digital platinum, gum, cyanotype, etc. be far behind?

move over Burkholder and tell Uelsmann the news...

oh what an excited and dizzy time we (photographers) live in

-Darryl
P.S. folks, while this is factual, the message is intended as
satire... for those overly-serious and thinned-skinned individuals out
there {and you don't know who you are}

-----Original Message-----
From: Argon3@aol.com [mailto:Argon3@aol.com]
Sent: Sat 11/8/2003 10:30 AM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: digital camera blues
 
Okay...got an Olympus e10 (4 megas) a couple of years ago...it's been
great
for those "little, annoying, quickie" jobs (like a fast headshot for a
musician
friend or band shots on a QUICK turnover. In combination with an
Epson
photo printer and PS Elements, I can turn out a fairly good 8X10 that
can go to
reproduction.
Most of the effects that I associate with alt-photo can be recreated
in
Photoshop BUT the printed results (on inkjet) are going to be much
less archivally
permanent than carefully produced alt prints. Many people in the
large
format groups that I read use scanners to make scans from LF negs and
then work
them in PS and print on inkjets...personally, I miss the darkroom -
NOTHING like
a good silver print.
Reading the Digital Photography newsgroup is almost funny...these
folks seem
to think that photography was JUST INVENTED and so many of the
questions are
the same as those that I read in old Pop and Modern Photography
magazines
THIRTY or FORTY years ago. Many of the "arguments" that they engage
in sound
suspiciously familiar, too. Canon vs Nikon, Foveon vs everything
else...I feel
like I've time warped.
Digital: good for some things, quick, quality has improved greatly.
Silver
Halide: still the best for accurate color and highest sharpness and
resolution. I'm not giving up my silver halide equipment yet no
matter what Kodak
does!

argon