Category: da net

Killing the Hobby

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QT’s playground is filled with shoppers and talkers. Goog searches bring the neophyte to the land of few people, with few ideas and unlimited opinions. Opinions about everything from shoe laces to national debts — all in the name of buying old cameras, lenses to make remakes of the fifties.

the arc of one story: join November. ask questions about camera, film, lens, developer. The basics.

get advice. going to the next step, with negative in hand, how to print this? Darkroom or Scan?

much opinion, until with response 277, his 200th post, he decides to skip large format altogether.

film is passed on to another seeker. hope they don’t visit the large format forum for insight.

The chemistry isn’t as toxic as those you meet.

Wisdom of Crowds

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more crowd than wisdom

// blame the enlarger, was correct

\\ the guy with recent experience was correct

bernadette

GAp is age
broshphere broceiling brocoding
brollateral
ego error
conceit / exhibition ist

superiority of a past

a perfect memory

[folve first problems
solve problems you encoutner]

kodak is great at rendering the generic memory color

vision3 and full post shop chain

lickspittle
noblo cause corruption

then talk it to death
name droppers
hearsy from those who never heard yet love to say

show n tell turned to never show
show off to sell

money is not neutral
it is neutering
money always picks
money — more
the impulse is more

Doing Dye Transfer Nowadays

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where to start when the game has ended

months of posts on the dye transfer group.io pages

but only from one person, and only about one topic: their newsletter update.

only the ego keeps them going.

The Browning Meyers groupio has been in disuse for years. The only subscribers seem to be onlookers, hoping to see something. There is nothing to see since the people making dye transfers have moved onto other places to show and tell. To share.

That is the way of old fields managed by old hands. They want to grow the same old things. Their pictures are as empty of meaning as their jokes of humor. Tired, tried. In favor of standardized reproduction. The industrial over the imaginary. This has meant they discount and discourage the young — those drawn to film by cinema. Cinema in manner and meaning. As imbibition was born in movieland, it has been replace by this century’s movieland. The electronic is the eclectic. Dye transfer is no longer an option. The last small group has material enough to print their interests.

Dye transfer gave up the advantage of color variable controllable palette. Dye transfer was killed by the boring hobbyist, led by technicians and tech writers. Landscapes change faster than the landscapers.

in the beginning…

peak noise was reached early…

the decline wasn’t because of the loudest noise… it was the whimpering background noise makers.