In a message dated 9/26/06 10:11:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time, dnygr@xxxxxxxxxx writes: > That's good news about the darkroom Renaissance. > Doug We have many young people coming in to our store for darkroom stuff. Not just the usual high school students getting paper and film, but young people teens through thirties who tell us that while Adobe PhotoShop is great, it's just another program where you sit at your puter and click -- they love the hands-on craft and art of darkroom. Some of the hardcore darkroom renaissance kids are the "Goth" types who are so hardcore they reject computers!! Warms the heart! I think the comparisons to ham radio are excellent. We too can embrace photography through all technologies and approaches, old and new. Bob Laubach Manassas VA