Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Why are professional labs unwilling to do pigment dyetransfer and Cibachrome?
From: "Barney Quinn" <Barney.Quinn@noaa.gov>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:02:19 -0400
References: <MBBBJHIBKCKEAEOKKBPOIEDMDFAA.bdcolen@earthlink.net>

Hi,

Robin Wright at United Photo in Beltsville does stunning Ilfochromes.
He's been doing them for me for years. Highly recommended.
www.uphoto.com.

Barney


"B. D. Colen" wrote:
> 
> ROFLOL!!!!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Rolfe
> Tessem
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 11:46 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Why are professional labs unwilling to do pigment
> dyetransfer and Cibachrome?
> 
> --On Thursday, April 11, 2002 11:07:54 AM -0400 Albert Wang
> <leica_phile@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I called up a few professional labs in the Philadelphia area to check out
> > their options on color printing and found out there was no one who does
> > either Pigment Dye Transfer or Cibachrome processing anymore. My question
> > is why are these standard color processing technique dying out all over?
> > Why has digital methods taken over? Can a digitally colored print
> > approximate the quality of the pigment dye transfer or Cibachrome prints?
> > Personally my gut feelings is that they are not.
> 
> I suggest you ask Ralph Gibson for the answer to this question.
> 
> --
> Rolfe Tessem
> rolfe@ldp.com
> Lucky Duck Productions, Inc.
> 
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In reply to: Message from "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> (RE: [Leica] Why are professional labs unwilling to do pigment dyetransfer and Cibachrome?)