Stallendale

Quite a while, this time. Anyway, I have been running low on film money (and don't tell me to go digital--- do you think I can afford a good digital camera if I can't afford a few rolls of film?), so I don't know what I will do next. If anyone is unloading a good digital camera for cheap, let me know. Every photography job I have applied for has required that one has one's own digital, so I haven't been able to get one at all.

I don't usually use this page to stump for a cause, but I think it is fitting. The City of Fort Worth is threatening to tear down the Ridglea Theater so that the Bank of America can put up a drive-thru. This is one of the few live music venues of its kind in Fort Worth--- free of Ticketmaster, LiveNation, or anything of the kind. The building itself one of the few single-screen movie theaters in the city still standing. It has been featured in historic tours. In addition to those who come for the music, those interested in architecture or in murals (how many movie theaters-- these days or when it was built-- have entire walls depicting Columb

Of course scanning negatives is easier and faster than making a print in the darkroom, and more people can do it because it's easier to buy and set up a scanner than a darkroom. (Also, the former doesn't need its own room with exhaust vents.) But I have found negative scans to be so much grainier looking than darkroom prints. Compare this darkroom print  and this negative scan. Both were shot on the same film. Obviously, there'll be grain since I shot 1600 and pushed it in developing (does it count as pushing if you triple the developing time just to get good exposures when you shoot at the ASA on the box?), but the darkroom print doesn't hav