Re: PHOTO-3D digest 1454

[P3D Bob Howard <bobh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

RE:Why were slides so popular vs prints to my parents? Bob Wier! 

With prints having 96% of the market (I read they sell more 110 print film than all slide film..and 110 is obsolete!), it is hard to realize what a "dream" a color paper was before WW2. Before Kodacolor in 1946 arrived (which faded badly in first issue), there was no way to make a color print except by the dye transfer method (also called wash off relief). I have a copy of Fortune Magazine from 1931. There are only b&w photos and the color ads are all paintings (because their was no easy way to photograph color...but printers could work from color art.) I made pix with a Defender Chromotone competitive process to Dye transfer of my Golden Gate Exhibition 1939/40 SF slides..Took me about 8 hours being inexperience to make a print 5 x 7 from separtion negatives I had to make. So when Kodachrome was introduced in 1936 and Agfacolor in Europe almost the same time..slides were all there were!! BobH (Pop Photo had ads for color prints in the late 30s/40s dye transfer for $100 for one 8x10..and this was the cheap work.) 


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