Re: "Best" color slide film/color neg (skies, gaussian blur)

[David Spellman <david@photopro.com>]

Tim Olive wrote:

> > NEGATIVES VS. CHROMES
>

> Another bummer is that b/w prints are becoming less and less desirable in
> the industry.  Many clients ask us to shoot color transparencies and they
> just convert it to b/w, which I hate. The creative process in printing is
> completely lost.  Might as well send it to the drug store.  The best of both
> worlds would be the ability to hand them a *b/w transparency*, along with
> the file, but I'm not there yet.

    In case anyone's interested...

  We've got a guy here in LA who processes black and white neg film to a
positive (transparency), but it has a pretty large component of brown,
depending on which of two developer formulations he uses and on the black and
white film used. It's in its infancy, but looks like a pretty nice process,
especially for portraits (commercial-type) and fashion.
    There's also SCALA film, designed specifically to be developed to
transparency, but last I checked there were only a few labs in the US capable
of developing it.
    Finally, there was/is a kit for processing TMAX films to transparency --
this from Kodak.

    david

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