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

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: Re: [Leica] Why are professional labs unwilling to do pigment dye transfer and Cibachrome?
From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 20:44:25 -0400
References: <F262hm8Ua8d9Ee4zadT0001b393@hotmail.com>

Hey Alfie, Kodak discontinued the matrix film for dye transfer a very long
time ago and without the matrix, there is no dye transfer.  A very few
practitioners bought a whole lot and still do them, but the number is down
to single digits.  If you really want a dye transfer then contact Ctein.

As for a cibachrome, to do it right you almost always have to make a
contrast mask which can take a couple trials and so $$.  Just like Leica's,
there are enough people who say the digital output is "just as good" to make
practitioners of the Ciba art a diminishing lot.

Don
dorysrus@mindspring.com

- --
To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html

In reply to: Message from "Albert Wang" <leica_phile@hotmail.com> ([Leica] Why are professional labs unwilling to do pigment dye transfer and Cibachrome?)