[ATM] old school,old ways

[Ina Ron Lippard Renaissance Reproductions <renrepro@surfglobal.net>]

Thanks George for the inspiration,
     Back in the 70's I worked for a Kodak vender.I made the integral parts 
for the inter-neg analyzer.It was a 'wet' method of taking everything off a 
color slide and transferring it to a finished print using 3 lasers.Since 
that time computers have shut down that R&D shop...thanks Kodak.I'am an old 
school student.I would never use any computer anything to take pictures.I 
have plans to use my old speed graphic camera with a Zise lens,(sp).If I 
cannot get film,I'll just have to make my own glass plates and camera to 
hold them.It worked before.So do slide rules,(requiring no batteries,just 
brain).I reject anything that lets my brain relax.The exception being 
harp-playing and single malt scotch!The students I teach as a sub teacher 
cringe when I enter a classroom.I begin each day by confiscating all manner 
of calculators and 'puter games.I force my students to use their brain.When 
a 3rd grade class uses a damn calculator,things are way out of hand.But 
this is now way off topic.I have no problem doing things that require 
time,thought,and patience.Glass plates do keep me from doing color work.But 
there is a trade-off,and a lesson.This is simple.If you can control every 
aspect of design and manufacture in a project,your chances of said project 
succeeding is greater.You wouldn't give your mirror to someone to figure if 
all they did was get it good enough.Nor would I.And if I recall,no computer 
was used to final-figure the Hale glass.The human hand is still used by 
every ATM reading this message.If you came all this way to build a scope 
for taking pictures,will you now begin to cut corners with some 
new-fangeled camera that can break down in an instant? Or take the role of 
artist and develop your own film or glass plates? These new cameras are not 
fool-proof as it was a fool that made them.One good magnetic source will 
wipe any disc.And I too have read that CD's and DVD's are degrading.One 
article expressed concern that in the future,entire archives may be lost 
due to having no equipment to play them back.Wet photography is a chemical 
process.Most anyone can do it.Last I heard,not to much effects a print on 
decent paper.
   There is no substitute for the human hand and human intuition.
    regards,Ron
sorry for the off-topic rant

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