Tag: dye transfer

Notes: 9/20

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Name drop with links. Not annotated.

I will be back filling posts on some topics — those dealing with topics of lab-work such as dye transfer. Another concern of how hobbyists contaminate the knowledge pool, is of diminishing use. Rather than opening a new page on these matters, I will add thoughts to existing posts. My interest in teaching was filled over that past decade: I have taught enough people how to make dye transfers and collotypes to pay my bill. Contact them… if you can’t find them, you must not know where to look. Avoid the Snobby Lobbies.

If I remember, I will post a link to updated items. Probably not going to happen. Then again, you may see something like (the following) as an “overnight” –this one doesn’t contain links, others may..

dumping dye transfer

[[ mod title of current draft 'way it was'
turn to the browning group sell off of existing equipment along with failure of dtc and efke products]
reminder: garelick's banning was over slammin kodak and his not using efke yet he called it flawed -- a standard wiley not held to.  dw doesnt print digital yet slams it at every iteration. 
his praise is for the kodakery mandated imaging: ala colorama life-style]
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analogy wars

-- get the analogy aint ez
spit, spray,

Using TMax

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Formulations change even without a branding change. This is done for reasons their maker knows. We can guess. If the item is intended, or is expected to serve the same utility, why introduce a New Name?

Super-XX and Kodak Pan Matrix film become one example

Super -XX1938 – 1955was the founding emulsion in speed and sensitization for Pan Matrix Film.
Super -XXafter 1955 became the film used for seps.1953 Kodak had moved to Safety Base
Pan Matrix 55111949dye washed out. see Defender process notes
Pan Matrix 51491957black didn’t wash out
Pan Matrix 4149(63 ->) the Matrix film most knewblackjet
Pan Matrix

open questions

The past can be used to provide answers for those open to reading.


TMAX, Super-XX, and Separation Negative 1 &2 were sold during dye transfer’s ending days.
tmax was not the replacement film… it just became so after Super-XX was dropped. After separation negative film (I and II) was dropped, TMax was the Kodak film that many experimented with. 
The Versamat also fell to the change in commercial photography world. The change had begun in the 70s, accelerating in the 80s. Retouching was the key to the kingdom.
With dye transfer’s passing, several lab films were not longer needed. 
They were replaced by the scanner.

this date (1985), the process was ending. 
These are list prices. Labs got discounts over 40%. Our discount may have been a secret kept from other labs. Nothing much else could be. Certainly nothing about the process. We hired from the same schools. Hired from each other. Some printers worked different shifts at different labs. 
I, for one, travelled among labs across country working on projects.

TMAX as the savior

One Film to rule the world.. often repeated — the repeat began with one person. Seemed reasonable. No one disputed it. Some out of ignorance, some, likely, out of politeness. In one case out of knowing better than to spend time making repeated corrections.

TMAX and Pan Masking film co-existed… TMAX was not the suggested fillm for masking.

Optical Printing… isn’t enlarger printing. At least it wasn’t. Notice the guidance for exposing duplication film. Use an optical printer, an enlarger, or a camera.

the great OPTICAL print.. sitting alongside the Enlarger and Camera.

Calling a photograph an OPTICAL seems like a call for help. A big word for something very common.

The optical printer has short enclosed separation between original and duplicate — or, negative and positive (print). An enlarger was also called ‘projection’ or ‘arial’ printing.

Optical is a code word of those who oppose this century’s vocabulary for inkjet printing.