1/22/2024 0 Comments Large advent speakers specs![]() and the abandonment of formats and software will accelerate. ![]() When physical media and it’s playback equipment disappears completely, the rent-seeking model will prevail, which will mean higher prices, little control over quality as any given individual may measure it, and increased external oversight of my choices. Those who sell subscription services are wholly interested in the complete removal of standalone technology. The newer stuff can’t be better when its technology is no longer available, and that because of a commercial viability decision insensitive to my needs and desires. That’s the part that’s on point here-the old mechanical (and electro-mechanical) technology is easier to sustain in the face of technological obsolescence than the newer software-based stuff. When my last Nikon scanner can no longer be used, I may be back to that enlarger. If I ever set up an enlarging capability again, it will use the Omega D-3 that’s much closer to the top of that pile. Just try finding the bulb that thing takes. I think I still have an old Solar 5x7 enlarger in the pile somewhere. Not the old Solar diffusion enlarger shown here. Everybody in the 70’s wanted a condenser enlarger, like an Omega or a Beseler, and then by the 80’s they wanted a Durst or a Saunders. Click to expand.Not that the technology had changed much, but that darkroom is more 40’s than 70’s. ![]()
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