Category: old bones

Easy Step: registration

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Registering film for printing (optical) isn’t a mystery. It is simple, but has changed, with increasing complexity of mechanism making easier, more certain, faster production of picture.

At first, the method was: cut-n-butt. This was the way wash-off relief (dye transfer) was done from 1936 into the 1950s. In fact the original Kodak Dye Transfer method was based upon a “slip-sheet” for matrix positioning at the printing stage. Kodak even included a blank, unsensitized sheet of matrix film in the 10×12 sheet boxes. [ ever divide 25 by 3; in tri-color separation, that 25 sheet box had an extra… used either for exposure tests, or use as a slip-sheet.

Needed: straight edge, knife, tape, loupe and good eyes.

Printers and animators had other means and methods. More about that in the “registration” posts.

printmakers have use “buttons” and “tabs” for decades. These are much more current. They are standard sized for at hand punches. The oblong slot allows easy on, as well as permitting size changes of support material.

Kodak used that oblong slot for the same reasons.

Kodak dye transfer register board.

Photography Is Small

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photography began as small, which meant it had to have details

because it was precious personal small… miniature, momento

small enough to carry, like a smartphone. smooth, polished, thin, like a smartphone

something that was shared with heads bent toward it, like a smartphone at a table

photgraphry stopped time and traveled across space. traveling by bringing end points together

like the web

photgraphy left objecthood centuries ago

objecthood is sculpture, is painting striving for its canvas – sculpture has walked off the plynth, painting from above the couch replaced by big as life postcards from the camera