I did some color printing on Cibachrome (now Ilfochrome), and got
results that at the time couldn't really be duplicated in a commercial lab.
The chemistry was probably exceedingly hostile to living things,
(probably to non living things as well but they didn't complain much).
I wasn't crazy enough to try to process the slide film I wanted to print
from though.
On 3/4/2010 10:23 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:12 AM, John Graves<[email protected]> wrote:
eckinator wrote:
Color chemistry can be all over the map with regards toxicity and
environmental impact ... but why anyone in their right mind would do a
home color chemical darkroom today is a mystery to me.
Think of it as like climbing Everest for the sedentary urban class.
I like to think in terms of being in one's right mind or getting there
open-mindedness should come before such adventurism
I understand your simile regarding being in one's right
mind...............but I am left handed. so I must be in my right mind.
I'm mostly ambidextrous ... My mind can't remember which way to go.
I did color chemistry in my home darkroom once upon a time. After
spending what for me was an honest fortune and several months' effort,
I realized that I could have had better prints by dropping the film at
the corner drugstore and paying a pittance. And had them tomorrow.
Digital capture, image processing and printing does far better than
the corner drugstore.
I'm in it for the photographs, not the journey of processing! ;-)
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