A friend of mine from RIT who will remain unnamed worked at Kodak in quality
control of their color printing service. He was partially color blind!!! This
should explain a lot when it comes to how many of those prints looked!!! All
seriousness aside, he worked out a system to accommodate his problem and
actually was pretty good at insuring decent color balance.
From: "darkroommike" <darkroommike@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 11:48:29 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: "Drugstore" BW Prints
When I ran a one hour lab I was told that most "operators" were women because
they were statistically much less prone to color blindness. My color acuity is
very good but some of the guys I knew in the bix were very color blind. Blame
it on the "Y" chromosome.
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From: "Richard Lahrson" < gtripspud@xxxxxxxxx >
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 3/17/2016 10:45:58 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: "Drugstore" BW Prints
Hi,
I worked one summer in a hugh print factory in 1965. I did
pick up work, helped mix the hypo in a vat the size of large
hot tub. At that time it was mostly color prints and the operators
were all women.
Rich
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Harlan Chapman < hchapman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >
wrote:
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Do any of you know how "drugstore" black and white snapshot prints were made?
I'm curious about how the framing, focus, exposure time, and contrast control
(if any) was handled?
All automated, or was an operator involved?
Thank you,
-Harlan
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