Re: Another one bites the dust

jjs wrote:
> "Scott W" <biphoto@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:47563e5e$0$2296$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Darkroom work is really now a hobbyists activity, expecting someone to
try 
>> and stay in business doing it is asking a bit much.
> 
> Have you seen what custom B&W printers get for their work if they are
good, 
> and have a good reputation?  Certainly, almost any bloke with bucks can
open 
> a digital do-it-yourself  shop or quickie CD lab, but so what?
> 
> Digital has liberated and elevated wet-darkroom work and film.
> 
> 

The point is that darkroom work is quickly leaving the commercial market 
and being left as a hobbyist activity.

The OP bemoaned the loss of the last place that made "real" color 
prints.  There is not much market for "real" color prints or there would 
be more places doing them.  But if someone feels that the old ways are 
best they can set up a darkroom and roll their own, this is as it should 
be, IMO.

Scott