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I spent a summer working with similar darkroom
conditions (water temperature in the 25 and above ranges). Try to do
decent zone-system work...!!
On the topic of darkroom obsolescence, Montreal
photographer Michel Campeau is working on a book of stills of (mostly
abandonned) darkrooms in the city and elsewhere. You can see some of it at
the following site
(Note that the incomprehensible introductory
comments is a good example of the sort of garbled
mishmash generally used by the art-photography community as a means of
distinguishing themselves from the non-"art-photography" community....).
-;)
There is something very depressing about these
photos. Particularly in the light of Per's comments about the magic and
excitement of watching images grow out of nothing in the chemistry tray.
As you say, Per, there will never be such a feeling watching a print come out
line-by-line from an Epson printer!
I beleive that Campeau's pictures really
do a lot of injustice to a process that is as significant to the sharing of
visual information and emotion as the invention of the printing process by
Gutemberg was to the sharing of written information and emotions.
As for me, I cannot envision parting from either of
my Omega Chromega Dichroic or my DeVere 504, even though I have not used them
for almost two years. I do beleive that well printed
silver-gelatin prints will remain far superior to anything that I can
produce digitally.
But then, perhaps I'm just
not inspired by the tought of munching pixels...
-:)
Best regards,
Guy
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