Forgot to say, I spend about 6 times longer preparing a digital print than I remember in the 80's in a darkroom!

A darkroom print, with planning, developing, dodging and burning - let's say 1 hour planning and execution.

Nowadays, I'll typically do a 16 bit RAW conversion, dodged, burned, twiddled, sharpened and corrected for the print profile - all in all takes me about 16 hrs, two days for a panorama.

Of course one could get a reasonable print in an hour or less, but that's not good enough for the invisible autisti-git who lives on my shoulder and shouts "Look at those gazongas, I mean midtones" etc.

Bah. Onwards...

Working backwards to chemicals.