Re: ektachrome sensitivity

From: Pip Chodorov (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Nov 27 2007 - 00:29:39 PST


Color print stocks like 3383 are NOT sensitive to a certain color,
similar to the orange color of the color neg mask. It is a very
limited range in the color spectrum, just a narrow downward spike in
the curve. Maybe the Kodak engineers planned it so as to make the
print stock automatically pre-graded to ignore the orange negative
mask. There is a sodium lamp available for darkrooms that work with
this stock. It is very handy to load the contact printer or the
hand-developing spool under the orange light. Makes it very easy.
-Pip

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>I am not aware of any orthochromatic color films -- it seems like an
>oxymoron, a color film that does not respond to all colors, but why not --
>does anyone know of one?
>
>Robert Schaller
>

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