In article <fabian-A2EDFA.17591628112006@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
jon fabian <fabian@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <EHWah.22943$oP6.21806@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "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
One can always coat the silver one's self and just breath the fumes ;)
If one is detecting vapor how is one not breathing the mercury? Its a
little late once its done.
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and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire
at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
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