a old stock roll of dye transfer paper was sold on eBay. congrats to both the buyer and seller.
a good price for the seller. good for the buyer too, if…
If the buyer knows how to use this; if they have conditioner and Kodak dyes, they are set to go. If they don’t have those things, they can mix both, if they know how.
I’m going to assume they do know how — I don’t know who bought it, nor do I know the seller. I’ve checked with the bakers and picklers in both printing groups — no one raises a hand. Those at OIC said they’d made an offer which was rejected. So it goes.
This paper is the mordanted type — two mordants. They are designed to control the Kodak Dyes, although the DuPont alternate set works just fine’ish. Meaning, the Greens will be too yellow. I guess that’s better than being orange’ish — making prints seem as though they were from ‘mixed’ window-light.
Oh, lets hope that whoever had this for so long stored it not on the flat. Oh, that curve you see, that is so the paper can feed into the very olden days Omega dispenser that Treck sold.
notations on making separation negatives. bits from the past intended for today.
DS
Chrome
CN
R
25
29
70
G
58
61
99
B
47
47b
98
wratten filter numbers
direct seps are easiest, but you create “time seps” as well — trichromie.
contact seps are easier than enlarged seps.
learn what standard light is -- then you can begin to translate "old" literature. Use the theory and experience of those who made their living in labs.
contact: standard light
standard light - tungsten -
first, early innovator lab: Evans & Peterson Color
K&M filtermatic and K&M Point Light … Omega ULE system
3 FC = .3 density from a 3.0 wedge density
AIM ~= .4 shadow negative
using silver density steps will introduce you to the “green problem” — aka, green gaps
calibrate with color strips &&& silver wedges
derive “Relative Exposures” of the sep set
29, 61, 47b
notes from tabula rosa: super XX to Tmax. XX is twice over. convert those historical refs to current start points. Oh. use HC-110 B at 72F
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visual evaluation/ no densitometer, make a BW print onto known paper.
print the Green Sep, unless GREEN is the dominant scene color. (then use red)
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First seps from: DuPont Fine Grain Pan (20x) easy
Grain of seps: 1975-80)
Plus-X -- lowest, best enlargement
Sep Type 1 (reciprocity notes)
XX - highest grain
-Green: less exposure longer Development
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DS Base exposure: (working with ‘factors’)
(25) Red ~=~ 1
(58) Green +1/3
(47) Blue + 2 2/3
OR take blue as the base exposure, then apply ND filters to the RED & GREEN exposures.
— newton ring
offset powder // gum glass
watch RH of film room.
don't mix exposure, storage, processing stages in same room.
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tmax contact [at asa 6]
29 24 sec
61 14 sec
47b 135 sec
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HC 110 A,B // C,F
DK50 st, 1+1 // 1+2, 1+3
D76 st, 1+1 // 1+3
Seps // masks
from back in the day:
Dupont 16D 6,7,8,9 == for gammas of .6 to .9 /.Sure made it easy.
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watch how you dry the seps. angles matter. never force dry (use "secret" dryer)
learn how to mix D76 so it doesn't "shift" on you. Oh, avoid those who don't know how.
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two shoes
the path is the destination
the destination isn’t on any path
MA (japanese)
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PS. what do I currently use? Ilford: delta, ortho plus, fp4+ — not Kodak. I have it. Have used it. don’t now.
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