edge100
Well-known
Is anyone aware of anybody still doing Ilfochrome?
gns
Well-known
You might find this interesting...
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/media/richard-learoyd
https://fraenkelgallery.com/artists/richard-learoyd
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/media/richard-learoyd
https://fraenkelgallery.com/artists/richard-learoyd
charjohncarter
Veteran
I wish someone would do it.
RangerFinder
Member
By doing Ilfochrome, do you mean is anyone still making cibachrome prints from slide negatives? If so, then I believe the Lab-Ciba in Burbank, CA is still printing them and Frank will continue to do so until he runs out of all the material(though according to the website he apparently has a bit frozen). You can find the web page with pricing here:
http://www.lab-ciba.com/
I've heard great things about them but haven't had any work done by them but will do so when I have the fundage and a project to fit the look.
I got a chance to see Learoyd's exhibit at the Getty in Los Angeles(went 3 times, actually) and could not get over how luminous and beautiful all of the images were. It was like stepping into a dream.
Ronald M
Veteran
I did it about 40 years ago. Prints hang on my wall and look like the day I put them there.
The high contrast is ugly. My cure was Ektachrome 100 pulled one stop with shortened first developer time. Then use an old uncoated Leica lens.
The slides look like a candidate for the trash, except the Ciba print from them are beautiful.
My mother took her 16x20 to a pro framer and he knew what material it was and did she know how it was done. She would not have understood if I had told her.
I tried masking, double masking with highlight and contrast reduction masks. This is the biggest pain I ever encountered in photography. All kinds of registration issues and spacing to give just the right amount of blur.
40 minutes in total dark with a lift rod and 6 bath E6 is no fun either.
Then I found Agfa color neg that did not have the jacked up contrast Kodak had.
You have no idea how easy digital makes things. I did about 75 portraits in 60 minutes, all JPEG, took the card to a guy who does quality laser printing. Done
The high contrast is ugly. My cure was Ektachrome 100 pulled one stop with shortened first developer time. Then use an old uncoated Leica lens.
The slides look like a candidate for the trash, except the Ciba print from them are beautiful.
My mother took her 16x20 to a pro framer and he knew what material it was and did she know how it was done. She would not have understood if I had told her.
I tried masking, double masking with highlight and contrast reduction masks. This is the biggest pain I ever encountered in photography. All kinds of registration issues and spacing to give just the right amount of blur.
40 minutes in total dark with a lift rod and 6 bath E6 is no fun either.
Then I found Agfa color neg that did not have the jacked up contrast Kodak had.
You have no idea how easy digital makes things. I did about 75 portraits in 60 minutes, all JPEG, took the card to a guy who does quality laser printing. Done
spaceistheplace
Established
There's Roland Dufau in Paris, he is a really good printer and makes cibachrome prints.
Larry Cloetta
Veteran
It's a pity, really, the disappearance of Cibachrome. Seeing this thread and the Fujifilm GX617for sale concurrently in the classifieds reminded me of Tom Mangelson's local gallery.
http://www.mangelsen.com/?SID=ca3imsa618aj5ssi6jj7p9k513
Tom has galleries throughput the country and anyone really interested in what Cibachrome means should visit those. He shot a huge number of absolutely stunning landscapes with the Fuji GX617, and stockpiled and froze a lifetime supply of transparency film to use with it.
He mostly shoots digital now and no longer prints with Cibachrome, due to "environmental concerns", but instead uses the best conventional color processes available. If you walk through the gallery you will see an admixture of large Cibachrome prints made from 6x17 transparencies, and more recent, more conventional work. It is all exceptional, but the Cibachrome prints, in person, are pretty clearly the most exceptional ones.
If anybody wants to really understand the difference between an excellent Cibachrome print, and an excellent non-Cibachrome print, instead of listening to people talk about it, just spend an hour in one of the Images of Nature Galleries, and see for yourself.
Gone (mostly) but not (mostly) forgotten. Such a shame.
http://www.mangelsen.com/?SID=ca3imsa618aj5ssi6jj7p9k513
Tom has galleries throughput the country and anyone really interested in what Cibachrome means should visit those. He shot a huge number of absolutely stunning landscapes with the Fuji GX617, and stockpiled and froze a lifetime supply of transparency film to use with it.
He mostly shoots digital now and no longer prints with Cibachrome, due to "environmental concerns", but instead uses the best conventional color processes available. If you walk through the gallery you will see an admixture of large Cibachrome prints made from 6x17 transparencies, and more recent, more conventional work. It is all exceptional, but the Cibachrome prints, in person, are pretty clearly the most exceptional ones.
If anybody wants to really understand the difference between an excellent Cibachrome print, and an excellent non-Cibachrome print, instead of listening to people talk about it, just spend an hour in one of the Images of Nature Galleries, and see for yourself.
Gone (mostly) but not (mostly) forgotten. Such a shame.