I used the automatic system once to get some rare blue swans, ordinary white
swans shot at sunset where the overall tone of the print was interpreted by the
autoprinter as being way to red to be real!
All the best
Laurence Cuffe
On 18 Mar 2016, at 17:11, darkroommike wrote:
You don't "eyeball" color balance when setting up a printer, you use a setup
strip with normal over and underexposed negatives shot on the film you are
setting up. Then you make corrections using a reflection densitometer. Color
correcting prints at the end of the dryer, that's a different story. The
biggest thing you fix is "subject failure" when the color balance of the
subject is not normal. The worst for consumer printing is pictures with
Santa, that big red coat gets "corrected" back towards neutral which drives
the flesh tones towards cyan and "little Billy" looks like he's choking.
------ Original Message ------
From: "bobkiss caribsurf.com" <bobkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 3/18/2016 6:38:41 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: "Drugstore" BW Prints
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.
------ Original Message ------
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:
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
