Digital BW, The Print

That's really funny. Delta screwed up so much of my equipment and
baggage last annual report season it was an amazing mess. Once, like
you, when they couldn't find it they just said go in the back and look
around. Sure enough, it was back there in a corner. Surely they didn't
even look.
On one leg, when they "lost" some of our pieces, our high powered
client with a Delta "in" gave a call, they found it in two minutes
while he was on hold, put it in a car and had it to us across town in
20 minutes.
For just anyone, it's lost.
People would not believe what those back baggage rooms look like.
Nothing labeled, no order of any kind.
Carry on won't even necessarily help any more, there's too little
room, they may have you check it anyway.
The whole travel thing has gotten nearly impossible, we're thinking of
fedexing our equipment ahead if at all possible.
Oh yeah, B&W printing...
Tyler

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean"
<deanwork2003@y...> wrote:
>
> That was funny and I relate to all of it. Just last night Delta lost
> my gitzo tripod on a flight home. I did find it though in a pile of
> baggage at the back of the airport amongst a bunch of musical
> instruments and golf clubs. But I'm not giving up the 4x5 or the RZ
> this year.  I can't afford one of those Phase One backs. Now those I
> would keep with me on the plane.
> 
> john
> 
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Ken Carney"
> <kcarney1@c...> wrote:
> >
> > > Part of me prefers my old air-dried "glossy" silver-print 
> > > surface to a matte inkjet paper, but I would not trade away 
> > > the ability to tape hang prints as opposed to dry mounting 
> > > them.  I have yet to see a display print on a glossy or 
> > > semi-gloss surface that did not need dry mounting or 
> > > something like that.
> > > 
> > > Do you think a large display print on this new paper could be 
> > > displayed and stay perfectly flat without dry mounting?
> > > 
> > > Paul
> > > www.PaulRoark.com 
> > 
> > 	
> > In the olden days, my friends would use tape or mounting corners for
> their
> > fiber prints, for "archival" reasons, although I dry mounted.  This
> made me
> > think of some of the liberating things of "going digital":  
> > 
> > 1. No dry mounting with heavy papers.  Dry mounting was as much fun as
> > mowing the lawn.
> > 
> > 2. No film developing.  See above re fun quotient.  
> > 
> > 3. No cleaning up the darkroom.  Now I might wipe a little dust
off the
> > monitor or clean up a ring on the desk from a brewski if I forgot to
> grab a
> > CD coaster.
> > 
> > 4. No set film speed - just dial in as needed from 100 to 1600 or
> even more
> > if needed, watching the histogram.  (The film speeds were
different with
> > film also, but that was because of the exposure or developer used)
> > 
> > 5. No tripod most of the time.  Or at least a smaller tripod. 
> Flying now
> > with the tripod for the 8x10 camera is interesting.
> > 
> > 6. No baggage with tripping the shutter.  With 4gb microdrives and
Photo
> > Mechanic, just take some different views and edit in the PC.
> > 
> > 7. The ability to reproduce a print easily.  I store the soft-proof
> > adjustments and it is just a matter of dropping one into the IP
> queue until
> > they change the paper on you.
> > 
> > 8. The ability to make great color prints without blowing half a day
> in the
> > darkroom.  No filters, just the WhiBal cards.
> > 
> > 9. Last, but certainly not least, no changing film holders in the
hotel
> > bathroom when you really want to hit the bar with your friends.
> > 
> > A good time to be a photographer, no?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Ken Carney
> > www.kencarney.com
> >
>