At 08:40 PM 6/10/2004 -0700, AG wrote:
> > I used to use Panatomic X then it was
> > dropped. Then I went to using Agfa 25. Then it was Pan F. I
> > also used Tech Pan for a while. All now gone... So it looks like I'll
> > be settling on Tmax100 and Tri-X.
>
>Yikes! I'm going to suggest that you convert to Kodak BW 400.
>I'd hate for your "black cloud" nature cause the discontinuance
>of Tmax100 or Tri-X. <smile>
LOL! I'm certainly feeling that black cloud following me, it explains my
mood in regard to this subject. But I think Tmax100 and Tri-X will be
around for a while yet seeing as how the b&w film market has thinned out so
much.
> > I can forsee the day in the future when making a silver print will be
> considered an
> > 'alternative' process.
>
>I hate to say it, but it's already there. I challenge you to
>find any commercial lab offering silver-gelatin prints. I may
>be one of only a handful in the entire state and the only one
>offering fiber prints. One of those labs is planning to
>completely shutdown all B&W processing at the end of this year.
>
>AG
I can understand commercial labs getting out of the b&w business, it's been
heading that way for years now. I was referring mainly to home darkrooms -
as a buddy said to me last week, in a few years we will be hand-coating our
paper like the guys of old coated their glass plates! Mind you, my buddy
makes the occasional daguerreotype so he's already been down that track.
But then I suppose our 'art' will be enhanced by that. It's a bit like how
platinum prints are viewed right now. As a niche market that has a 'trendy'
old-world aspect to it (and I'm not meaning to be derogatory in any way).
Andrew McPhee
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