Re: Wet photography is really dying

On 5/11/2008 4:22 PM Charles Hohenstein spake thus:

> In article <MPG.2291803df6eea91298b7d7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  Rob Morley <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> In article <48275c59$0$11167$822641b3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, David 
>> Nebenzahl (nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) says...
>> 
>>> You know, it's great you have all that stuff; it really is. I don't
mean 
>>> to take anything away from that. But how on earth can you propose that

>>> since *you* have all this great stuff that the state of wet
photography 
>>> is OK? It is for you, for the moment, but as others have pointed out, 
>>> what happens when manufacturers inevitably start not producing film
and 
>>> paper? What will we do then?
>>
>> Wet plates.  :-)
> 
> And dry plates, and homemade paper. But there are too many film cameras 
> in use for film to disappear anytime soon, if ever. Even rollfilm sizes 
> like 620 and 127 are still available.

Yes, but read what I said about that: It won't disappear, but it will be 
expensive, hard to find and restricted in variety.


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