GreatI appreciate what your saying and I agree that commercially it is dead but i'm doing this as part of my college photography project, nothing to do with money, and so what if people want to do this for fun?
There are other older photo techniques that could profit from some experimenting.
This was one of the problems I encountered also its critical to get the re exposure filtration and times spot on. As Photo Engineer suggests these tests really need a color chart. This is what my image was of when working out the process.Well, we know that the Kodachrome sensitizing dye is designed to stick around, and so a lot of the cyan could be the dye. IDK.
It might just be a blue-cyan cast of mixed off color dyes formed by the chemicals you used. You should use a color chart to differentiate the colors in the image so that you can tell what is going on.
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Another process many of us would benefit from further experimention with to improve would be RA-4 Reversal, or any good process to produce prints from slides. Much preferred over wasting time resurrecting Kodachrome.
Interesting. I was disappointed to hear, however, that RA-4 reversal is not at all suited to printing Kodachrome slides.Ra-4 Reversal is something I have done extensive testing on and dare say I can get a far more interesting print from slide film printed via ra-4 reversal than I can from printing the normal Ra-4 process. Anyone who invests the time in Ra-4 reversal can discover astonishing effects in contrast and colour manipulation that are truly unique.
Interesting. I was disappointed to hear, however, that RA-4 reversal is not at all suited to printing Kodachrome slides.
I can get a far more interesting print from slide film printed via ra-4 reversal than I can from printing the normal Ra-4 process.
It becomes possible to control the contrast in ways you cant with other positive to positive processes and you can control the color in ways that you cant with normal ra-4 printing. It opens up a world of analog color printing that actually becomes easier and more flexible than ilfochrome (cibachrome). Like any photographic process it simply requires individuals to work diligently with methodology to be mastered. I simply cant stress enough that there is a world in Ra-4 reversal that im surprised has not been explored by more people in greater depth.By interesting, do you mean creative or diverging from strict realism? or something else?
I simply cant stress enough that there is a world in Ra-4 reversal that im surprised has not been explored by more people in greater depth.
I'm listening. Do you have any examples or further instruction? I have hundreds of 4x5 slides I've never printed thanks to the premature death of Ilfochrome, and while I've seen reasonably decent RA-reversal prints I've not seen any that really knocked my socks off and made me want to invest my own time in improving the process myself. I lack the expertise and disciple anyway, but if I knew it was already possible to get top-notch repeatable results I might follow in someone else's footsteps.
I can vouch for this from my own experimentation with RA-4 reversal. I would get one good print and then my results would degrade. It took me a while to figure out that it was the black and white developer. Once I started using it one shot, I got results that were repeatable.Mix up your working solution of black and white first development chemistry and only pour a working ammount needed into the tray to develop your print once development is done throw away the chemistry and use new chemicals for the next print from the working solution you have made. You get far more print control when you use the black and white developer as a one shot solution.
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