---- Godfrey DiGiorgi <gdigio...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:12 AM, John Graves <jh.gra...@verizon.net> wrote: > > eckinator wrote: > >>>> Color chemistry can be all over the map with regards toxicity and > >>>> environmental impact ... but why anyone in their right mind would do a > >>>> home color chemical darkroom today is a mystery to me. > >>>> > >>> Think of it as like climbing Everest for the sedentary urban class. > >> > >> I like to think in terms of being in one's right mind or getting there > >> open-mindedness should come before such adventurism > > > > I understand your simile regarding being in one's right > > mind...............but I am left handed. so I must be in my right mind. > > I'm mostly ambidextrous ... My mind can't remember which way to go. > > I did color chemistry in my home darkroom once upon a time. After > spending what for me was an honest fortune and several months' effort, > I realized that I could have had better prints by dropping the film at > the corner drugstore and paying a pittance. And had them tomorrow. > > Digital capture, image processing and printing does far better than > the corner drugstore. > I'm in it for the photographs, not the journey of processing! ;-)
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