Oh, I was offered a pretty nice drum scanner for free. But other than these rainy day web diversions, while my prints keep trying to dry on the darkroom screens, I've had it with computers. My hands were darn near crippled with carpal tunnel and trigger finger misery. Now they're almost completely normal again, just two years after retirement. I have a friend nearby who has plenty of space and does inkjet work, but even he didn't want the scanner. Once you've got one, you still need backups for sake of parts and maintenance. Then software goes obsolete over and over again. I'd rather deal with replacing a burnt-out darkroom sump pump from time to time. Inkjet does a wonderful job with certain kinds of subjects, but unfortunately, not with the subtle gray, greiges, infinite shades of muted green and gold we have here in California. Any fool can create loud oversaturated noise. But I don't call that music. Color is about hue relationships, involving intelligent modulation between saturation and breathing space. Just slathering an image with more jam and jelly and sugar isn't going to make it taste appealing. You just feel sick afterwards. But going the opposite way and pancaking everything with HDR and deliberate tonal blaah is like eating egg whites without any salt.
exactly !
