Re: B&W Slides

[threed@xxxxxxx (Bob Mannle)]

David W. Kesner ASKS:
>Has anyone used this product? (TMAX reversal)How did it turn out?
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Dave,
For the NSA Convention that was held in San Diego a few years back
I produced a six projector 3-D show about some past history of Southern
California.

The California Museum of Photography provided me with about 50 or sixty
views from the Keystone Collection. My idea was to mask these antique views
inside of some comtemporary color images. About half the show was antique
images, and half modern... it was a nice contrast and appealed to both the
modern shooter... and antique collector.

The problem was that the images provided to me were not stereo cards, but
individual proofs from the negs. The tonal range was all over the place, and
some images were very B&W while others were yellowed, and some even sepia
toned.

I used the TMAX reversal to copy and align all the images. Everything had to
be hand mounted and aligned inside to the appropriate kodalith masks, so the
image would then drop into the color image projected on the screen. I even
used some soft edge "fuzzies" to sort of blend the two together.

Once I was all finished I decided that I really didn't care for the super
clean B&W look that TMAX had given me... so I unmounted everything and duped
them all again with E-6 film... using a sepia toned filter pack.

Nevertheless, I was very pleased with the TMAX results. The sharpness and
clarity was certainly there. I had to bracket the hell out of things to
try to bring the tonal ranges together, for all the images. It took a lot
of film, and a lot of chemical... but in the end the results were very nice.

Had I been doing strictly a B&W show... perhaps the clean B&W look may have been
acceptable... but somehow, masked inside of a color image the B&W image 
seemed to loose some of its antiquity. I guess it's really a personal call.
I certainly have no complaints regarding TMAX... the project probably could
not have been done without it... and once they were copied to TMAX... it
made them all compatible with each other.

I did use TMAX film with TMAX reversal chemicals.

Best Regards,

Bob Mannle

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