Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]2001-09-18-15:01:43 Mark Rabiner: > It's kind of dated. Was real big in the late 80's in THE FACE magazine > and Interview. None of those people would go near it now. Its like a > green polyester leisure suit. And don't forget Details. There was a time when I don't think you could get a photo in there if it didn't have that cross-processed look. But they may have been following the above two. I remember some of the photo stores kept stocking the old-school Ektachrome emulsions in 35mm even though they were vastly inferior to Kodak's new "E" series for most normal uses mostly because they crossed pleasingly -- E100 and kin go all blue. (I know of some 4x5 users who still use one of the older emulsions mostly because they've dialled-in all their processes to it, they know exactly what it'll do, and why should they change?) But 35mm people usually worry more about grain. What was the recipe, again -- overexpose by 1 stop, or 2? Was it ED at EI 50, in C41? I figure the way things move, cross-processing, considered cutting-edge cool in the late 80s and then mortifyingly dorky, is about due to become retro-knowing-snigger-recool (the way green and particularly baby-blue polyester leisure suits became cutting-edge cool a couple of years ago). And then there's the whole Chihuahua question. But that's for another essay. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html