Farside
Joined: 01 Sep 2007
Posts: 1862
Location: Ireland
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 Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Laurence wrote: |
I waited about 6 days...and they called me and said the "film is ready". I pulled the transparencies, and they marveled at the size and brilliance of the big transparency! One of the young guys there said something like: "So what did they do, I don't see how they could scan your digital image and come up with THAT!"   
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Frankly, I'm not too surprised at the level of ignorance shown - most young wans have never dealt with film and it's as if an accelerated forgetting process has been taking place in the population at large. I grew up with knowledge of the previous processes to the ones I was using, but that's because I read a lot about photographic history. I wouldn't have been fazed if somebody had started talking to me about Daguerrotypes, since I would have known what they were and had even encountered some in relatives' treasured family albums. It does surprise me slightly that the store people didn't have any clue about MF film at all, but heyho, it's not been mainstream for a generation or more.
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"The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and
prosperity is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious,
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