If we lived in some alternate universe in which the current level of digital photographic technology (digital backs/cameras, digital post-processing, and high end inkjet printing) and the current level of chemical photography technology both appeared in the world simultaneously and photographers were asked to make a choice, would anyone actually chose the wet chemistry darkroom over the digital “darkroom?”
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In art, there are different media that people can use, whether oils or acrylics or water color or even charcoal or whatever. I can’t paint but I can appreciate that different artists like to use a favorite media or maybe a combination of them for their art.
And whereas I don’t have a chemistry darkroom I still like to play with film. I certainly take far more pictures digitally these days but I still find film loads of fun and a challenge. While technology moves on and you can do stuff digitally that you could never dream of doing with film, I hope film never goes away.
Not me. I’ll leave the chemistry darkroom to the fanatics. Anything to not have any junk/toys taking up more space–the reason I purchase MP3s, and soon ebooks.