Editors note: Yes, I know these are color enlargers, but you can do black and white on them and the photio was readily available.
I heard an amazing and funny story today about competing technologies. This is the new killing the old, I guess.
The head art teacher at a local high school was telling me about his Black and White Photo class. He has a digital class or two, but he also has, available in the 11th grade, the traditional Black and White Photo class.
We were discussing if we should call it antique processes at this point, even though that title has been usually reserved for ambrotype and daguerreotype etc., times have changed enough that silver printing is quickly becoming an antique.
He told me that in his class recently, he has been having a problem in the darkroom.
Kids in the class are having their paper ruined and no one was able to determine why this started to happen. After continued problems, clearly not only paper from a single box, which could have been exposed, he investigated and discovered that the lights from kid's cell phones and MP3 players were ruining the paper.
Maybe we need a safelight app!
The head art teacher at a local high school was telling me about his Black and White Photo class. He has a digital class or two, but he also has, available in the 11th grade, the traditional Black and White Photo class.
We were discussing if we should call it antique processes at this point, even though that title has been usually reserved for ambrotype and daguerreotype etc., times have changed enough that silver printing is quickly becoming an antique.
He told me that in his class recently, he has been having a problem in the darkroom.
Kids in the class are having their paper ruined and no one was able to determine why this started to happen. After continued problems, clearly not only paper from a single box, which could have been exposed, he investigated and discovered that the lights from kid's cell phones and MP3 players were ruining the paper.
Maybe we need a safelight app!
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