We’ll miss:
- the black and white developing cells, with the deep tanks full of the all right chemicals kept at the all right temperatures, and the darkroom with its zippy machine printer and deep zinc sinks, drying cabinets and that huge lightbox.
(who said a P&S couldn’t do DOF?)
We won’t miss:
- the digital ‘darkroom’ with its dazzling flourescent lights and those beachballing, beachballing, beachballing iMacs, and the scanners with their speciality vertical line-creation feature. We especially won’t miss equipment we were never allowed to use.
We’ll miss:
- every single instance that a technician or instructor spent that bit of extra time beyond the call of duty mixing chemicals, adjusting reflectors, flagging lights, checking bulbs, testing batteries, cleaning lenses, loading and unloading dark slides. You know who you are and you’ll never be forgotten.
We won’t miss:
- the bod who wants a full time contract so that they can leave early at 4pm. Does every single organisation have one of those? Perhaps.
We’ll miss:
- Judith’s ready smile and her perfect Fair Trade coffee.
We won’t miss:
- Nestle and Cocacola machines. Why does every single educational institution have those damnable things? Everywhere? Some students have been known to get them turfed out, and there was at least one NSU effort to get rid of them altogether. Ah well.
What will you miss?
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I will miss
the “good scanner”
cups of tea from judith
the insanity of the computer room with bbci player
all the helpful advice from tutors and students
the epson printer
i won’t miss
downstairs computer room with the smelly keyboards and slow macs
“the creepy photographer”
getting up at 6:45am
the grey walls
by the way when was your last day at college?
My £100-from-PCWorld Epson scanner is better than any of the ones at college. Don’t know about the one I wasn’t allowed to use, though.
Photobox do good quality prints, and so do Digitalab, all at similar or lower prices.
Getting up early is pretty much a prerequisite for a photographer, isn’t it?
Last day was Friday. Hooray!
Funny as I was never “trained” to use the good scanner. I just went in and worked it out myself.
I managed to get all my prints done than goodness!
the printspace also looks good. They do a online service now.
yeah..early mornings. I still hate them.
Arbitrary decisions, nothing coherent or objective-driven. No systems, all pet preferences and adhoc-ery.