Category: film

Professional or Amateur Film

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a designation which may seem offensive by those defensive users. Although not an absolute measurement, it was used by the main film makers for most of their film century.

The character of the professional user gave us the term. They used more film; stored it for shorter times; frequently altered the processing parameters. This market of film, frequently, included a tech-sheet with more technical information than the amateur ideograms, assuming that the professional would interpret them correctly for their need. The professional worked with controlled, or at least knowable light systems and situations.

The professional was expected to enlarge their film in different situations and to much greater degree than the amateur. Professional films were expected to be reprinted, or otherwise re-used more often than the amateur.

Amateurs frequently kept film in a camera over many months. At one mass-processor an informal contest ran: the winner would be the roll of film with the greatest number of year-over-year vacation snaps. More Thanksgivings, etc. The ultimate winner was a 12 exposure roll with a wedding, 8 Thanksgivings and a funeral. It was dropped off for processing at a One-Hour finisher. That is the amateur

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Jigs made film testing easier. Commercial ones meant that those without skills or machine shops could have easy systematic emulsion testing in their lab. The Cine-pro company also had some of the best stainless trays ever made. None of it was cheap … prices were on the order of a few days pay for the average lab worker.

what motivates
the maker isnt always known… usually it is reaction … either to a known, but as likely to an unknown, even a rejection.

LINKdump

  • The Flexichrome: visual examination and scientific analysis of an overlooked color process – Nayla Maaruf, Sylvie Pénichon
  • Photography and Doubt – Andres Zervigon
  • Photographic Ritual: Visual Conditions of Behaviour and Definitions of Self – Lyuba Encheva
  • The long-term development of three-color Kodachrome. An odyssey from the additive to the subtractive method of color reproduction. – Nicolas Le Guern
  • The Fall of the Idol: Negotiating Authorial Intent and Controversy in Art – Juney Thomas
  • Photobooks of Found Photographs since the 1960s: New Neorealism – Mirelle Thijsen
  • Algorithmic Image – Dr. Daniel Rubinstein
  • Art Involving Computation vs Computational Art – Rosemary Lee
  • On the Verge of Photography: Non-representational Imaging – Dr. Daniel Rubinstein, Johnny Golding, Andy Fisher
  • Light Emitting Diode Color Estimation: the Initial Study – Linas Svilaini

—https://webionaire.com/2014/06/06/dye-transfer-is-a-painted-lady/

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