Black and White photography has been with us more or less as long as we’ve had photography. Generations of photographers learned the fundamentals of exposure, tone, ISO and all the other foundations of the craft on black and white. This began to change with the advent of cheap color film and then again with the advent of digital. No longer do most know the smell of developer, the thrill of watching the image appear on the print, or the agony of having a day’s work of concentration, effort and careful logging wiped out because of a careless developing error (we just loose it all in a hard drive crash).
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