"Don Pearce" wrote


Many years ago I bought a Cibachrome kit, with drum, box of filters
for the enlarger, thermometers, chemicals and so on. I must have made
a hundred test prints trying for a decent colour balance - which I
never managed to get to my satisfaction. Add to that the lousy
contrast range and you have expensive misery.


Ditto....



Digital photography is incalculably better than that. From picture
taken to people the far side of the world looking at it in a couple of
minutes - no contest.


No-one grabbed digital photography quicker than I did. Even back in the 640
x 480 days (256K ???) days, getting a pic onto the screen in moments (even
before fast modems/broadband) beat all that ****ing about with film and
waiting for results. Nowadays, being able to get large, hi-res pix to
anywhere in the world in a heartbeat is still quite staggering by
comparison!!

Add to that the (effectively) zero cost of film and there's no contest, as
you say - I once took 21 pix on my way up to the post box and back and
That's on the corner of our front garden!! (Can't say I bother to print much
out these days....)


I still have a 35mm camera which appears to be getting more expensive
by the day on ebay - quite inexplicable.


Ah....!!

See my original remarks about *ultimate quality* - it'll be a long time
before wet film cameras dry up completely!!

Now, by the power of digital photography, go and see my pix of the
excavations I got finished today:

****BLOG ALERT***

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show...0Patch%202.JPG

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show...0Patch%204.JPG


(Note the 'compost delivery' hard on my tail - no pressure, like.....!! :-)

If you're really lucky, I'll show you a pic of my butt tomorrow.....

;-)