I don't know how camera shops survive (minus a few
high end service oriented shops in a few cities where there's a
large enough and well healed market for those services).
I buy pretty much everything online from the "usual suspects"
although sometimes I'll get an itch and head on over to a
local shop to pick something up.
It's nice to see and touch stuff before you buy it, but at
least here in Wash, DC, alot of the gear I've bought isn't
in the local shops anyway (and Wash, DC isn't that
small a town).
Oh well.
Scott
Arthur Entlich wrote:
>When you start getting desperate for B&W paper, let me know ;-). I have
>pounds and pounds of the stuff, and that just may go up in price. I
>have several packages of papers no longer made. Some may be fogged by
>now, I don't know.
>
>BTW, the main used camera and darkroom equipment store in Victoria
>closed several month ago. Most of the area that was darkroom chemicals
>in the major retailer camera stores is now taken up with inkjet paper,
>ink, and printers.
>
>Art
>
>scott@adrenaline.com wrote:
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>
>>Poppy cock. As long as there are photographic *artists*, there will
>>be mono chrome emulsion shooting, even if no company chooses to
>>make film any longer.
>>
>>I don't imagine that many photographic artists make much coin, but
>>Sally Mann's work is very popular, get's top marquee exhibitions and
>>her books are sold at common outlets like Borders.
>>
>>Her recent "What Remains" project (exhibition and book) was shot on
>>glass plate negatives.
>>
>>While I don't recall how she printed, there are folks coating their own
>>papers in palladium to make fine art contact prints, each one a thing of
>>beauty and a product of the hand crafting of the artist - hence collectible
>>by fine art afficionados - vs. the "infinite reproducibility" of digitally
>>"captured" "images" (I like my DSLR but really hate the new terminology).
>>
>>There is even a movement to product 8x10 or 11x14 "digital internegatives"
>>from digitally captures images for final, fine art oriented
>>platinum/palladium/
>>cyanotype/etc. contact printing.
>>
>>By hook or by crook, as it were, B&W shooting and printing will go on
>>for decades to come, long after the mini-mart C-41 machines are rusting
>>in dumps.
>>
>>Can't speak for the consumer market, the photojournalists and so on -
>>but I don't really give a crap about them in the first place.
>>
>>Scott
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