Richard Knoppow wrote:
I am beginning to wonder if this list should continue to be confined to
B&W. The reasoning is that "chemical" color photography is based on the
same silver emulsion technology as B&W. Since the whole field of
chemical
photography (my term) has shrunk so much since the introduction of
electronic (digital) photography perhaps such restrictions should not
continue. What say others?
I consider black-and-white photography and color photography to be two
different media that happen to use the same equipment and similar
processing. These days I am more likely to lump them together as chemical
photography (that, perhaps, includes processes such as Polaroid -- I
am not
sure about that). In view of the huge swing to bicycling (inside joke) --
digital photography, I think those interested in any form of chemical
(wet
process?) photography should unite just to keep a few black and white
films
and papers, and a few color films and papers, alive.
Just because I think the two are different media (and my color work is
seriously inferior to my black and white work), that is no reason for any
particular individual to practice only one.
