matrix-film: what ifs

Posted on Posted in alt photo, dye transfer, Getting Stuff

suppose there were other uses of a matrix film — what might they be/ have been. Would they provide enough users for an emulsion run.

— this question was one raised in earlt 1990s, then again in 2K.

The question remains open.

pathways to panchromatic matrix film:
-- orthomatrix resensitized to tricolor set
-- factory sensitized tricolor set, as if they were pigment tissues
--

this is a shorthand post… another open question post is: why can’t a group gather resources enough to build products.

I don’t know that I have the correct answer, but I do have an answer .

PKD. Bitbros

Posted on Posted in book shelf, econocaste, stranger land

so poor I left behind unpaid library fines in three states .

Books he never wrote: bitbros: the man in the white castle, or, climbing hoover tower.

ABout: Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) numberica! Dick attended Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California. He and fellow science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin were members of the class of 1947 but did not know each other at the time

Dick was married five times:

  • Jeanette Marlin (May to November 1948)
  • Kleo Apostolides (June 14, 1950, to 1959)
  • Anne Williams Rubinstein (April 1, 1959, to October 1965)
  • Nancy Hackett (July 6, 1966, to 1972)
  • Leslie “Tessa” Busby (April 18, 1973, to 1977)

The man of many drugs, wives and words for a dreamland … billionairions think genius comes to those with accounts. It doesn’t

sci-fi is philosophy without thinking or history 

wealth is a counter indicator of genius . The wealthy prefer to buy their genius .

Basic Orange

Posted on Posted in exs notebook, labnotes

squeeze the net hard enough, you get lemons.

consider the color negative. That piece of orange film -- so it seems. The base must be orange. It isn't. The orange is within the emulsion. Its purpose is color correction of dyes used in the Color Negative-Positive process of image making. 
I used to demonstrate, and have students attempt to duplicate with their explanation the following "test" -- experience.

     We will process color negative stubs (short 12 exposure rolls)
-- One is processed in D-76 developer  -thru fix, wash, dry. It may contain images. Your choice.
-- Another isn't exposed, it is unexposed but processed fully in Color negative line (C-4!) -- thru all chems, then dried.
-- Final one isn't exposed, but it isn't sent thru any developer. It is only fixed out using the C-41 fixer, then washed and dried.

Question: what are the differences? firstly, what do they look like? And, what are the differences in their curve shapes? Why do you think that is.

In this day, 2026, the mask is considered by most as existing uniformly and present in the "base". 
Adding a test -- can the orange be removed from the film: 
-- using abrasion
-- using chemistry

Did the base of the film disappear, dissolve, or merely look more like BW clear base.