Yikes! I take 10 days away from this very valuable online community and the longest thread on my return is about . . . digital v. analog. It's like I left in 2022 and returned on 2010. I suppose all image makers are preoccupied with technique and process, but photographers may lead that parade. Last week I found in my own collection a print I made as a newby in 1971 from a 6x7 negative printed with a Graphlarger back and processed (probably inferiorly) on Agfa Brovira photo paper in a tiny, blacked-out kitchen. And yes, the print did have a glow that I do not usually get in my digitally printed images--so much so that I immediately decided to cut off the paper's yellowing edges and stick the print in a matte. I am still without a real darkroom, but have recently been working in my blacked-out bathroom to contact print 4x5 and 5x7 negatives, the pull of analog being strong. That said, I can regularly turn out on my inkjet printer images that satisfy me greatly, using software from the printer's manufacturer. I get immense pleasure out of gifting these or pasting them only thank-you or greeting cards. It's all good. We should be thankful we have so many wonderful choices.
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