Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/18

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Subject: [Leica] Re: What is cross-processing?
From: Jeff Moore <jbm@oven.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:25:56 -0400
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2001-09-18-15:01:43 Mark Rabiner:
> It's kind of dated. Was real big in the late 80's in THE FACE magazine
> and Interview. None of those people would go near it now. Its like a
> green polyester leisure suit.

And don't forget Details.  There was a time when I don't think you
could get a photo in there if it didn't have that cross-processed
look.  But they may have been following the above two.

I remember some of the photo stores kept stocking the old-school
Ektachrome emulsions in 35mm even though they were vastly inferior to
Kodak's new "E" series for most normal uses mostly because they
crossed pleasingly -- E100 and kin go all blue.  (I know of some 4x5
users who still use one of the older emulsions mostly because they've
dialled-in all their processes to it, they know exactly what it'll do,
and why should they change?)  But 35mm people usually worry more about
grain.

What was the recipe, again -- overexpose by 1 stop, or 2?  Was it ED
at EI 50, in C41?

I figure the way things move, cross-processing, considered cutting-edge
cool in the late 80s and then mortifyingly dorky, is about due to become
retro-knowing-snigger-recool (the way green and particularly baby-blue
polyester leisure suits became cutting-edge cool a couple of years ago).

And then there's the whole Chihuahua question.  But that's for another
essay.
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