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From: kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: Slide film vs Color Neg. film
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Date: Sun, 10-Nov-85 12:55:37 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 10 12:55:37 1985
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Reply-To: kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner)
Organization: Tymnet Inc., Cupertino CA
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Keywords: Dye-transfer

>By the way, dye transfers are usually made from slide film. From the
>positive image, a set of separation negatives are made. These
>negatives are used to produce the positives that are used to actually
>make the prints. It is too bad that this process is so difficult and
>expensive, imagine the possibilities for controlling things when you
>can separately control the contrast of each of the colors.

I hope that some time in my life I can work  up the initiative to try dye
transfer.  About ten years ago I attended an exhibit of landscape
photography in London.  Most of the prints were blank and white, and as one
would expect, Ansel Adams was well represented.  There were perhaps a
couple of dozen color prints, in some cases labelled with the process, e.g.
"Cibachrome," and in others merely labelled "colour print"--I reproduce the
British spelling of that fatuous label.  While looking at some of them and
saying to myself "not too bad," I glanced across the room and saw what I
was certain must be a couple of large, rear illuminated transparencies.
They were BRILLIANT.  Walked over to them and discovered, to my surprise,
that they were dye transfer prints.

-- 
Herb Kanner
Tymnet, Inc.
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