E.L.. Shapiro wrote:
WOW! That's waht I miss aout film. I found that certain orthochromatic films were great for bady faded and yellowed prints. I used Contrast-Process Ortho, and a special film that was design for printed circuit manufacturing that woud literally reincarnate dead photographs. For regular black and white originals, Professional Copy (4124) was my favorite. Technical Pan was another popular product aroud the studio. Dektol, Selectol, Selectol-Soft, D-8 and Technodol were always on hand in the darkroom.
Yes, all the damages and defects woud emerge with those high-contrast films but fortunately, we got to make work prints and our retoucher woud spot and airbrush all the scratches, nicks and dents and replace missing and lost details. Then we woud make internegatives on the copy film and nice warm-tone or sepia prints. Nowadays, we can do some of that digitally, but it does not have quite the same look!
WOW! That's waht I miss aout film. I found that ... (
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Glad to know that someone else found out about the high-contrast film magic. I had customer from all over the country send me old prints to work on. Always happy customers and did not complain about price especially if they had already tried someone else with miserable results.