hey dude, I've done a few things in the darkroom that I have absoilutely no clue how to replicate in photoshop, and I must also say that I know my photoshop as good most. If you wanna se what is capable in a darkroom, which I'm sure you would consider to be "pure photo" if as long as it was done in a darkroom (after all ,there was no computer manipulation AT ALL), I advise you to go and look up the galleries of one Jerry Uelsmann, who hasnt touched a computer for photo EVER since he started in the 60's. ry