FOMO: Jun/19

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Keeping track of supplies ain’t easy. Yes it is! That is what twitter, instagram do well: keep you posted. It is someone’s job to feed the feed with news about products.

Those links will keep you knee deep in kit. And, you will be ahead of the online gossip gatherings.

Yep, I understand the link to Facebook/Instagram and the Falseword World. You don’t have to publish to read. You won’t perish. AND those seemingly friendly forums are just like the nice folks helping you at the Miami Bus-Station.

Sometimes the thief you see is better than the one you don’t.

postcards of the hanging

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.