andy_cross1

Are you interested in just the look or the process itself? There was the dye transfer process for still photography, which is practically identical to the Technicolor process. Kodak discontinued their dye transfer materials years ago. Maybe someone else around here knows if other suppliers have picked up the ball.

I still make dye transfer prints ( real ones ) and have several dye sets to print with. One set is a set of Cromax technicolor dyes. The colour space they work in in is very similar to that of the Kodachrome process. The Cromax dyes are anthraquinone's as opposed to the monosulphonates the Kodak DT dyes were made on. How you would replicate this colour space now using contempoary materials would not be easy. But there are a few DT labs around still who may be able to colour match to a Kodachrome.

<p>I'm sorry, but some of the most important things needed to make a great dye transfer are no longer available. Pan Masking film, for example, was a unique product necessary in the process of making an unsharp mask. The best prints were printed from no fewer than eleven films, many in combinations as contrast masks, all in perfect register and some of those were made from intermediate films too.<br>

Just making the matrices will give you a print, but it was far from the best. You need special films to make mid-tone masks and highlight masks at the very least. None of these films are around any more and there are no substitutes. What's made today is a far cry from the best that was done in the eighties before computer imaging.</p>

I have only just signed onto photo net but found this post and thought I should reply. The information you posted is not accurate. I still make genuine dye transfer prints. Even made my own matrix film at one stage when it was unavailable. There are work arounds for masking film, separation film, pan lith film, dyes and papers. I now colour separate on a film recorder but the remainder of the process is analogue. I also make tri colour carbon prints and materials for that are even more difficult to obtain.

Andy Cross from Australia. There are a few people still making tri color and monochrome carbro and carbon prints. You can have them made commercially at Ataraxia go to atxstudio.com

Ask to speak to Tom Hubbard. Dr R F Green now lives in Evansville IN. He is in the book. He no longer runs workshops or sells materials but is a wealth of information on the process. Bob Pace was a personal friend of mine involved in dye transfer which I also use. He passed away early this year.

Hope this information is helpful to you.