daveh
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Post by daveh on Jul 31, 2010 13:19:56 GMT -5
Did any of you ever use Cibachrome? This is one of the few enlargements I did using that process - and the only one I can find at the moment. Being a reversal process the border (removed on this) is black rather than white. Glossy - so scans quite well!
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Post by mickeyobe on Jul 31, 2010 14:51:30 GMT -5
daveh,
I used to use Cibachrome as almost all my photos were slides.
I liked it because it was relatively easy. I liked the time and temperature method in those tubes as opposed to open trays that I used for B&W.
I have a Durst M605 enlarger with its dichroic colour head, a Bessler colour analyzer, exposure meter, timer - anything to make it easier and minimize guesswork.
I was pleased with most of my results while other Cibachrome users were constantly complaining about its high contrast. My enlarger is set up beside a large upright freezer. One of my "friends", upon seeing my set up said I was probably degrading my images due to the light from my enlarger reflecting off the glossy white freezer. I covered it with black construction paper. My contrast became untenable. I removed the black paper and continued happily degrading my prints.
Fortunately Photoshop does not care who or what is beside my computer.
Mickey
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Post by daveh on Aug 11, 2010 15:24:19 GMT -5
Mickey, I thought I had replied to your post soon after you made it. I was using an Opemus enlarger (was it a 6? I looked it up, but have forgotten again). It had a filter draw and I had a Durst Colorneg Analyser. I had some success. As you say it was easier after they brought the drum out rather than using the open trays.
Using digital is, by comparison, easy. I am glad I learnt the hard way. That said there was someone locally who was an RAF photographer and he always claimed it was more difficult in his day - having to take and develop film in all sorts of situations . I wonder what Fox Talbot would have thought.
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Post by mickeyobe on Aug 11, 2010 18:02:06 GMT -5
Fox Talbot would have thought we were insane trying to develope, 8, 12, 20 or 36 pictures all at once.
Mickey
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