----- Original Message ----- From: "Emily L. Ferguson" <elf@xxxxxxxx> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 1:01 AM Subject: Re: Canon digital bodies and Nikon lenses. : Never made contrast masks. Only been in that toxic color darkroom : for 4 hours of my 62 years. Think I'll stay out of it for the rest : of my years, too! my 20" RA4 is in mothballs at the moment until I build the newer, bigger darkroom, but once it's done I'll be back to RA4 in a shot! Sure the processor takes up a lot of room and eats a bit of power, but comparing the costs of ink to chemicals, the processing chemicals are FAR cheaper. As I've said before there were students at college who moved from digi and inkjets back to RA4 as they found it so much faster to get a *good* print out and the results looked so much better than any inkjet. I also found when working in a large photo supply shop that a fair number of B&W shooters were moving back into their darkrooms to get the tones, longevity and speed of a silver based print. Seriously - seeing the grins on faces regarding speed and ease was a laugh myself, I'll keep the A3 8 colour inkjet for mucking around and for graphic applications (have you ever made a poster with film based technology?? - all that letraset stuff drives you nuts!) and the prints will come out of the chemical baths :-) k
