Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:05 AM 8/7/98 +0200, you wrote: >>My project is to develop an easy way to make three successive >>exposures through three different color filters onto very fine >>grain B/W film. > >Dye Transfer is a little out of place in the days of Fuji Velvia etc. >It is very interesting but not worth the effort. These days impressive >colours are achieved in print/by manipulation of scanned pics. Dye Transfer is still THE superior way to print a picture, and it's experiencing a revival. And it gives you some of the kind of control that photo manipulation via scanner and Photoshop would give that no other print process can match, and image quality is superior to any but the most expensive drum scanners. It just costs way too much, and takes way too much effort. - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch I used to have a handle on life, then it broke