I learned to print Cibachrome in 1975 - did it before I developed film
or printed black and white myself. rather an odd way to get into it.
still have 50 or 60 prints I did myself and a few I had done by someone
else. Still have the big tube, too.
It was tough going getting the exposures right and the colors - and the
chemicals were really noxious. But after doing those for a year or
so, black and white printing was a walk in the park.
But the results were better than getting negs made from slides and then
having the um what was it? C-41 processing done by a lab???
My first honorable mention was a ciba print from the Grand canyon from
the Saturday Review in 1976. Alas, they didn't print all the honorable
mentions in the mag, so while it was exciting to get the mention, it
would have been much more so to see it in print in that venerable old
magazine.
ann
On 2/12/2013 12:02, P. J. Alling wrote:
When I printed Cibachrome it was at college, (University for those in
other English speaking lands), at the student run Photography co-op. We
had invested in an electrically driven agitator for processing E-6 which
was replacing at the time E-4 which was really just too toxic for a
darkroom primarily run by student volunteers. The agitator made
processing the Cibachrome so much easier. It made processing the E-6
less tedious as well.
On 2/12/2013 4:50 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
I miss the thrill of seeing a cibachrome print, but it was a very
taxing project in a home darkroom. On a simple enlarger, one had to
guess at an initial filter pack. Then processing the print required 30
minutes of rolling the drum back and forth by hand. Then came an
analysis of the color, adjustment of the filter pack, and another 30
minutes of rolling the drum. Making a single satisfactory print was a
two to three hour project.
Paul
On Feb 12, 2013, at 4:06 AM, Jostein Øksne <[email protected]> wrote:
That's sad!
I remember the first Cibachrome I had made. It had been renamed
Ilfochrome a few years hence by then, but people in the know switched
terms every other sentence. Took me a while to figure out they were
one and the same... :-)
The first thing I thought was that the 50x70 cm print looked better
than a projection of the original slide, both in colour and contrast,
to the point that it became a serious boost to my photographic
self-confidence.
The lab I used had around 10 employees working full time to produce
enlargements in 1998. They provided all kinds of chemical processes,
but they had a particularly good reputation for skill with
Cibachromes. Six years later, in 2003, all the print production
except Cibas had ceased, and the company was reduced to one man. Last
time I commissioned Ciba prints from him was in 2006. By then he
produced on rapidly dwindling demand; he said he could notice the
difference from one month to the next. I just checked now, and his
company name is still registered with the authorities, so I suppose
he has a small turnover still, until his supplies of paper and
chemistry runs out.
With the rising quality of prints from other processes I'm not sure
if I'll miss the Cibas as such. But I certainly miss the excellence
in craftsmanship and personal service provided, first by the company,
then by the man.
Jostein
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Subject: CibaChrome is dead.
It happened sometime last year, and I didn't even notice it. In
combination with Kodachrome, if you did everything right, you could
produce startlingly beautiful prints. Ilford announced sometime last
year that they were discontinuing the product, (Ilfochrome), due to
falling demand. A moment of silence please...
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