michael_helms

I find this conversation really interesting, and I won't hide the fact that I'm a reversal-printing neophyte.

What got me interested in this is the fact that most of what I shoot for my local photo club has to be in reversal, by virtue of the fact that it's easier to show slides to a group than it is print. I bemoaned this at first; after a few rolls of Kodachrome I was hooked, as the colour saturation and midtone contrast seemed to be blowing the negative colour films I was using out of the water. Unless I wanted to go with a "specialty" film like Agfa Ultra, I just couldn't match the Kodachrome for depth and richness of colour. That's just personal observation, though - I'm sure there are those who will disagree, and I present it only as opinion ...

... anyways, this made me inevitably curious about the possibility of printing. And what got me intrigued by Cibachrome (Ilfochrome or whatever) were the results on the Fujichrome prints I got back. The lab I dealt with (local pro shop, doesn't charge an arm and a leg, but considerably more than the local photomat) raved about the Fujichrome process, and I really had to work to not show my disappointment when I got the prints back. They were muddy and dull, and I simply couldn't correlate the image quality of the prints to the original transparencies. Perhaps I should give it more of a chance, as that was one batch of prints from one lab ...

I had no idea that Cibachrome was such a pariah in the industry - people either look at me reverently or as some sort of leper when I ask about it, which I admit has made me curious to try it for the benefit of my own experience and opinion, if nothing else. As Scott said earlier, I don't particularly care what the process is - as long as I get good results. What good is, however, will remain to be seen.

I happened upon this thread in searching for information about how to do the P-3 processing myself. This still seems to be a rather scarce topic, so perhaps this is an indication that I'm getting out of my league here?

Persistantly,

-- Mike Helms

Hi everyone,

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I recently fell into ownership of a Kodak B-C Flasholder. It has a strange cable sync cable (not a PC style plug that I would expect), and it uses a 22.5 volt (?) battery.

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Can anyone glean some information of what this may have been used for? None of my Brownies have the proper socket to use a flash like this.

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-- Mike