Re: That Worn-Out, Old "Film vs. Digital" Debate

In article <EHWah.22943$oP6.21806@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "babelfish" <babelfish2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Film will be around for the 
> future, but it will be so difficult a medium to embrace that it might as

> well go away. Some people still make albumen prints and coat glass
plates, 
> but it's not so easy to coat your own slide film and make the chemistry
to 
> process it and do all of this well.

Yes, and even the daguerreotype has made a very very limited 
reappearance with Chuck Close's work. But he has the wherewithal to have 
the silver plates manufactured and the modern technology to install 
Mercury vapor detectors in his darkroom...

Every tool has its use and not all tools are useful to everyone.

JF

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