Horror- Slide duplication and "enhancement" techniques

[markjwyatt]

[sarcasm] I think we need to get rid of all slide duplication equipment, and potentially reversal materials. I picked up Photographer's Guide to Slide Duplication and Enhancement, Ben Duben, Amherst Media, 2002, and to my horror, they were teaching techniques to add clouds, mask, change colors, add a moon to city scenes, reverse images, create multiple exposures (out of the camera!), masking, etc., using slide duplicating techniques. (My head is spinning, quick let me sniff some hypo to regain my composure). I propose we further modify Photrio into Phoquad- real analog, slide duplicating analog (and potentially negatives using these type of techniques), hybrid, and digital. Maybe Kodak should never have developed Kodachrome. Perhaps we should go back at least to glass plates (dry or wet) so we do not fall into too many traps. I am starting to wonder about the wisdom of sensitizing silver halides. Slide duplication is a danger to photography! [/sarcasm]

 

[radiant]

I agree! I've heard there are these new kind of cameras that capture photographs without film and you can view those on computers. But luckily they don't have these options because the images cannot be manipulated in any ways, thank god! Photography is saved if we film photographers just keep the line.

Perhaps we should go back at least to glass plates (dry or wet) so we do not fall into too many traps. I am starting to wonder about the wisdom of sensitizing silver halides.

Yes, I have never ever seen wet plates being manipulated in any ways, so we are all good.

I think we should make more rules based on personal opinions too! I heard gatekeeping is trending!

 

[Nicholas Lindan]

Even B&W printing isn't safe. The book Lootens on Photographic Enlarging demonstrates taking multiple prints, slicing them up with a razor blade and gluing them back together to make a FrankenPhoto.

The only hope is to ban photography. Then we can all take up painting...