Has RAW workflow allowed digital photography to catch up with the dark room?
Yes, and then some…. The ‘good old days’ of film than many photographers can remember were just that for those who developed their own film and enlarged their own prints. I’ve done a little of this and it is a lovely romantic thing to do, if not enormously time consuming. You would develop your films, using a clock and a set of chemicals and an extrodinary amount of water, dry them and then take the negatives into a red darkroom where hours could disappear as you produce test strips, and eventually enlargements of your shots with what is actually a very high level of control over various elements which sadly took many many years to learn. But it was and still is a lovely process. As many people will know only too well this was not a possibility for the domestic photographer, confined to use the services of professional labs for developing and printing. The result of this is the domestic market has never had any artistic control over film based photography printing. Not only that, but
