Doing Dye Transfer Nowadays

where to start when the game has ended

months of posts on the dye transfer group.io pages

but only from one person, and only about one topic: their newsletter update.

only the ego keeps them going.

The Browning Meyers groupio has been in disuse for years. The only subscribers seem to be onlookers, hoping to see something. There is nothing to see since the people making dye transfers have moved onto other places to show and tell. To share.

That is the way of old fields managed by old hands. They want to grow the same old things. Their pictures are as empty of meaning as their jokes of humor. Tired, tried. In favor of standardized reproduction. The industrial over the imaginary. This has meant they discount and discourage the young — those drawn to film by cinema. Cinema in manner and meaning. As imbibition was born in movieland, it has been replace by this century’s movieland. The electronic is the eclectic. Dye transfer is no longer an option. The last small group has material enough to print their interests.

Dye transfer gave up the advantage of color variable controllable palette. Dye transfer was killed by the boring hobbyist, led by technicians and tech writers. Landscapes change faster than the landscapers.

in the beginning…

peak noise was reached early…

the decline wasn’t because of the loudest noise… it was the whimpering background noise makers.

mystery of assembly

overnight Dec 3 2022

can you duplicate the coating
can you make a copy repeat copy of a bad AIM/LAD?
if it is silver, can you print a high, mid, low tone?
like a mystery, how does it turn out.

a good beginning and a bad ending
work both ends, bring them together as you learn


i used to teach by show the end stage -- they knew where they were headed. that is also where some people excelled while many failed.
rollup was where the better people wound in the big labs

key parts of a transmission densitometer
-- light and filter
equipment poor: buying long before need
buying too much too use
=====
prt 2
top to bottom
light, filters, film [exposure jigs] chems ---> est, eval
--- print /
light, tissue , chems, assembly jigs ---> transfer , print eval

once you have a cycle, button in the measurements , ie, densitometer permits future estimates ,, ifff your system remians stable as implemented.
greatest variables are locals -- the made to hand. by hand. did it dry, did it slip.