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Ektagraphic

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• Jun 14, 2009

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How does an image in instant packfilm transfer from the negative to the paper?

 

Steve Smith

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• Jun 14, 2009

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By diffusion through the developing paste.

There is a good description in the biography of Edwin Land, 'Insisting on the Impossible'.


Steve.

 

SaulB

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• Jun 14, 2009

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This page has some nice diagrams of how the image is transfered to the print.

 

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Thanks!

 

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its crapped out.