Photography at a Crossroads: View from the Window at Le Gras
"It's so easy to lose information," says Stulik. He likens the arrival of digital cameras to the introduction of Gutenberg's moveable-type printing process in 1455. "Everything changed," says Stulik. Wouldn't it have been nice, he suggests, if someone had sat down in 1460 and described the methods used by medieval scribes to create illuminated manuscripts before people forgot how to make them?
Science Times has a very cool article on the very first photograph ever made. I still love printing photographs by hand with chemicals but I don't have the time to do that more than a few times a year, sadly. My best friend Peter is raving about his new Nikon D100 and his new Epson 2200 and while I may try that stuff out someday soon, there's value in NOT sitting in front of the computer to make your photographs.
Gen: "I still love printing photographs by hand with chemicals but I don't have the time to do that more than a few times a year, sadly"
You do it a few times more than I. :-(
I remember teaching myself B&W photography and printing...then spending up into the wee hours of the morning printing my photos...I miss that. My tool was a Minolta XG-7 manual focus SLR (which I still have). Today I shoot with a Nikon N60 autofocus SLR (I swore for years I wouldn't shoot autofocus...but the XG-7 was ailing).
Thanks for the post, Gen.