Response to Is film now just a digital storage medium?

OK, wife drags me to quilting show. Machine quilted quilts have better stitching, no doubt, but they tend to look awful. Hand stitching is a bit messier, but boy the whole thing looks better. If you hand stitch a quilt, you aren’t going to use gaudy fabric. Carry over to photography, my 8x10 may be a pain in the neck (but much less than a queen size hand quilted epic) and because it is so much work to lug, develop, and contact print, I'm going to take much more care in what I do. The sewing machine didn't kill hand stitching, though I imagine digital will have the same impact as the sewing machine. Dean

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