[EMAIL PROTECTED] mused: > > > Herb Chong said: > > > > > in the wet darkroom, getting the perfect print from a negative once > > > doesn't mean you will ever get it again. > > > > Shel Belinkoff said: > > > > That's a ridiculous statement ... > > > > Why is it ridiculous? > Duplicating a print in the darkroom is hard if there is much manipulation > happening to get it just right. Even if you keep good notes there is a lot > of handwork, dodging and burning and so on that isn't able to be repeated > exactly time after time, especially if some time elapses between the > printing sessions for a particular negative. > > It sounds realistic to me, not ridiculous.
I agree. And in any case, if you're going to reduce the process to a mechanical following of a recipe/formula, you might as well let a machine do the work - you've removed any creative input from the process of creating those subsequent prints.
