[rollei_list] Re: Missing the boat - RE: Re: FREE Tri-X
- From: FRANK DERNIE <frank.dernie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 09:16:29 +0100 (BST)
A friend of mine is a photographer in the West Country
(Cornwall) and he has just started selling
Daguerrotypes. He is a brilliant technician and does
everything himself from mixing the chemicals to
coating the plates.
Frank
--- eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Even if it goes the way of etching and engraving and
> mezzotints there will still be something available,
> and more than likely you'll find a way to stay
> involved. And if not? All the more reason to enjoy
> it while it's here.
>
> We're too big of a niche market to ignore. Just look
> at all the flickr members who use film - multiply
> the number by approximate expenditure, and there's
> sure be some money worth having a slice of.
>
> I'd worry more about color slides and color
> negatives than black & white.
>
> E.
>
> -------------- Original message
> ----------------------
> From: "Robert Lilley" <54moggie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > I would come under the hobbyist and fine arts
> photographer heading. I
> > follow all these digital vs. film discussions
> closely. I don't understand
> > the digital world as much as I understand film.
> So in the midst of all this
> > digital talk I am building a full sized darkroom
> complete with utilities,
> > ventilation, cabinets, sink, etc. Am I a fool?
> >
> > I was in a gallery in Blairstown, NJ a week ago.
> One of the exhibitors was
> > a silver printing photographer who had a little
> place card under her work
> > stating that folks better buy up silver prints now
> because there isn't going
> > to be any film or paper in the future.
> >
> > I listened to a former head of photography at the
> Museum of Natural History
> > tell me that if she was buying large format today
> she wouldn't purchase a
> > 5x7 camera. She doesn't think film will be in
> available in that size soon
> >
> > Five camera stores in my area closed this past
> year - the general lament, "I
> > can't compete in the digital market".
> >
> > Then I read your folks on the internet who are
> slowly but surely are going
> > digital. It seems that soon film will be
> relegated to just the collectors
> > who sound like tree frogs exercising their
> shutters as film's sun sinks in
> > the west.
> >
> > Am I a Don Quixote de la Mancha tilting vanishing
> windmills, a Luddite
> > watching the world pass me by? Do I not
> understand something, did I miss
> > the announcement?
> >
> > Rob
> >
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