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Much has been lost (of course far more has been gained - such as my kids using worthless hand-me-down Android tablets as cameras quite creatively) since photogr
by MarkusWandel 3y ago
Much has been lost (of course far more has been gained - such as my kids using worthless hand-me-down Android tablets as cameras quite creatively) since photography went digital. And combining both photography paper-as-film and eyeglass lens optics and ... what do you mean, darkroom?
https://www.timhunkin.com/a198_goodbye-cibachrome.htm https://www.timhunkin.com/a198_goodbye-cibachrome.htm
Sadly, this marvellous paper - direct positive colour and easy to develop - is no more.
Direct link to the video since (for me, right now) the embed in the above doesn't work. https://youtu.be/5AOlPuTQt-M?si=q7RibENicPH0Be9m https://youtu.be/5AOlPuTQt-M?si=q7RibENicPH0Be9m
- zabzonk 3y agoi don't think i've ever known anything as magical as developing my first wet-photography print.
- MarkusWandel 3y agoIt was magical, wasn't it? A couple of film photo adventures on my old cobwebsite... https://wandel.ca/homepage/yashicamat.html https://wandel.ca/homepage/yashicamat.html https://wandel.ca/homepage/wetcamera.html https://wandel.ca/homepage/wetcamera.html TLDR: The first one is about using a 20-year-past-expiry film in a format I didn't otherwise use; the second is about developing a drenched E6 slide film in b&w chemistry and trying to get prints.
- dekhn 3y agoI have done darkroom work some 35 years ago and I can only say how relieved I am that we've moved into a world of digital sensors.
- MarkusWandel 3y agoNo argument! But it was fun to have experienced it; in my case starting photography as a hobby and going digital were just over a decade apart. Favourite part was being able to extract the coiled film from the tank in full light and peer at the negatives for the first time and then making a contact print sheet. Making enlarged prints was relative drudgery.