On the other hand, a set of color compensating (cc) filters isn't very
expensive., and they can be used in almost any enlarger. They go right
in the filter drawer. The same place you would put your contrast
filters that you use when printing on multigrade paper. When Cibachrome
was introduced some thirty years ago, you could buy a kit that included
the paper, a roller tank, the chemistry, and the cc filters for a
rather reasonable price. I think Ilford bought the technology and
continued to market it as Ilfochrome. It was a reversal process that
produced high contrast, high saturation color prints from
transparencies. I tried it a few times. I still have some of the
prints. They were quite nice and apparently long lasting. You might
still be able to buy an ilfochrome kit. I'm sure you can buy cc
filters. Kodak also has a reversal process called Type R. I'm not sure
if the chemistry and paper are widely available However. Warning, the
ilfochrome/Cibachrome chemistry is very nasty stuff. Legend has it that
the guy who invented Cibachrome died from overexposure to the
chemistry. Could be an urban legend, but having sniffed it quite a bit,
I can believe it.
Paul
On Sep 13, 2004, at 10:10 PM, D. Glenn Arthur Jr. wrote:
Peter J. Alling advised:
D. Glenn Arthur Jr. wrote:
I don't know whether this is a strange question or not ...
Assuming I don't want to make any changes to the colours I
see on the slide, can I print from a slide using an enlarger
designed for black-and-white (i.e. one that doesn't have the
set of colour-printing filter)?
Sorry it won't work that way, you'll still need to compensate for
difference in the color sensitivities in
the paper batch.
Oh well, at least my question had a simple answer. Thank you.
I had a feeling it wouldn't be that easy, but figured I had to
ask just in case.
-- Glenn
