UPDATED: Dec, 2024. This was forgotten even though it is the post that brought several students my way. I put them through the egg-hunt. A baker’s dozen were taught how to print dyes; along their way they became quite close knit group. Two combinations occured: FI1lm, and OIC.

This was written after Frank M. had contacted me to invite me to the Failed yahoo egroup mentioned below. I am updating this because it has popped up onto my “hits” dashboard… probably because of searches for Eggleston’s show. That hit startled me because I am writing a post about the misconceptions about dye transfers provoked by forum exchanges over that show.

In the time since this was originally posted, I have made many more dye transfer posts, some are:

• https://webionaire.com/2006/03/12/dye-transfer-paper/  2006
• matrix film 2015 https://webionaire.com/2015/04/22/old-matrix-film/
• dye transfer supplies https://webionaire.com/2022/05/13/dye-transfer-supplies/

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[first posted: aug, 2013] There are only a few people making dyes. The subscribers of the DT list number only 300; most of them are gawkers. Hangers on. They hope to learn something about what was. I don’t know why they do. Just don’t understand why they want someone else’s memories.

This is the last roll of Kodak Dye Transfer paper in the world, as far as I can tell. There is one other person in the world with some sheets of paper, but these days the last dozen workers are mordanting their own. I have gone through my last 6 rolls cautiously. Now the world is down to this last one…. and it has only a few prints more on it…

This is one of only two remaining batches of Kodak Pan Matrix … I will be through these boxes by the end of the year. And then there will be none. DT RIP

Some of the cards in the deck of my lab times