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On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 22:53:09 -0400 (EDT) William Donzelli <aw288 at osfn.org> wrote: No. Analog (chemical film) photography is as dead as cinemas are dead since the wide spread of TV sets in every household. With more and more TVs in peoples homes "everyone" predicted the death of the cinema. But there are still cinemas, 50 years after TVs became common. The question is not analog vs. digital photography. The question is when to use what of those two mediums. They are entirely different mediums, each with its special strengths and weakneses. There are many things you can do equaly in analog or digital. But there are many other things that are impossible with analog or impossible with digital. There is a lot of overlapping, i.e. things you can do analog or digital. Therefore many people see digital as a replacement for analog, but this is not the case. Analog vs. digital photography is like apples and pears. They look similar, but you know the difference if you taste them. Or compare it to black/white vs. color photography. Color is common and affordable for many years. Even when you do all processing yourself at home. But there are still a lot of photographers that use classical black/white materials. There is still fibre based (baryt) paper in wide use although there is the much easier to handle RC paper. There are even people using old print technics like cyanotype or laborious oil prints. It depends on the _target_ of your photographic ambitions what technic to use. The actual technic, what ever it is, is a minor point. The technic doesn't matter, als long as you can handle it well enough to achieve your goal. I got into classical, analog black/white photography a few months ago. (After I did this many years ago in school.) I don't like to handle all this toxic chemestry. But it is the only way to get what I want: Large (8"x10" is the absolute minimum) fine art b/w prints on fibre (baryt) paper. I am using a medium format camera (Kiev 88) as this is the minimum format to get acceptable results for this print size. -- tsch??, Jochen Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/