A MEETING OF THE COMOR TECHNICAL SUBCOMMITTEE ON PROCESSING, HELD AT NPIC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04747A001700110003-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 15, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 14, 1962
• Content Type: MFR

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itiMORAt1Ai FOR THE RECORD
UBJECT: A Meeting of the COMOR Technical,, Subccrosr. ittee on Process!
Hold at NPIC
was held at the National Photographic Tntemretation Cartier.
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Rooi _'02, Steuart Building, at 0930 hours on 11 May 1962. The follow
s were present: Mr. Janes, Reber, CIA,
T. The agenda as proposed in the memo, doted. 3 May, was covered with i;h0 exception of 3te-m, 4 of the aub,lect zuex,o having to do with ce era. r}rnb1. ! s.
=r. 4Mft, Reber a who chaired this r eeti
ng announced theta s-Decial meet : nrr
ioubl be held at the leATley 'ice On 1f:S May, at which time the ner,.hers n1
this subcoztm ittee would be given a briefing on the operaticxr.l, arpeet r,
the several carters systems in use end iaropoeed. This Meeting will. ba held
in Roos 6B21 at 0930 hours. The group w?.ll reet at the train entrance at
'a 2 hours for escort to the briefing area.
brought a set of sainxale terials to the neeting and a siriiler act will -*e
z!=ailed cording to the following distribution: One set each to Amy.
"x" IC, SAC, ACIC and NPIC. These test zrateri.als are the result of an e ??rizr~ent
e Kodak laboratory. Frc r= the crveretional negative, a nox3nnelly t' S,E~Ser1
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duplicate ? ositive was prepared from a s rsall increment of one roll.
ity range of this duplicate positive was from *W.
1 and If/stop equivalents; of under-exposure and 1 and 2f/stop equivalents
lea of E third generation, _unlieete negatives were prepared, ranging fresn?
Ad.= itio i duplicate positives were lade i'rc i this some orirjr i. nevet ve.
of over--exposure. From the so-caller normally exposed dup1;.c ate rao ai t vee ,
stop equivalent under expos . duplicate
itive and the 2f 'top equivalent over-exposed duplicate positive. This
of 1.05, resulted in materials quite similar to the last mission.
direct reversal method, the dupl:i(eate negative thus s enerat
ne ,tives were prepared frov the 2f
reeuitss in the preparation of nine third generation d.uf)licete negatives is
-which anlz the exposure had been varied to produce e variety of density cute.
Of this series, the second generation duplicate positive and the third
generation duplicate negative, which had been nor ally exposed to nrrduce a
processed by the contractor.. In addition, a direct reversal diinli, t- neap
teneration closer to the original negative than by conventional nrintins- frcr,
`t U 1 ?x r) 1 "I G eq,p d..te c v..- {~D na
lye to 'nonitive to negative. Jaiaaa *4 go details were furnished by the
under-exposed and It atone over-exposed. F`urther c>.u-n): sate
enared and sent to "IC for evaluation. The cc a*sittte
d to inspect this saasmnle at NPIC so that
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the use of this method can be rnade at the l,,'~ May meeting, If nossibi e.
he 4rl4wl negative had --bra shortened and the prariu eri - ,- ffo.,?
contractor. It is aces w e d that this Is P. chemical reversal nrocesse i.n which
the duplicating naaateri_al is exposed to the original negative by a contact
method and is d ev:loped, b:leachesd, and redeveloped. in which ease err iron
oxide vtetaallic replaces the original silver iiraage in P. reversal fashion.
Previous investigation of thin type of processing gave evidence that the tonal
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had been increased cexa red to the silver structure of the oris
aed that a Inierodensai.tcnneter' trace of identical aareeFc
5 n she origin -l zae Live, the direct reversal dutalj.ra:te negative, enci
;exaeration duel kite n--p- negative ffi dP frCr, a r`enV nth $rate positive.
Only by coring these trar..es of identical areas c.
.an an raccuraste =va ton
be Trade. It in significant to mention that in all of the eefor ,enti..nneA
aerials only the ensure had been changed end all sa riles r cy ivec,
proccessaing, therefore, the A'sn of all these mrttw-t-1.r'tq
for instance,, 00 the duplicate Poaltive which was equivalent f/q'tra?a atncier
exposed received the a processir r a?a the duplicate positive w ieh era=
n-011 1-111Y exposed, etc. Had this subject duplicate positive received rrc~-
lan develor ent or develomnent in a mere evaaricioua solution the share
A the D lop B curve would vary consi.derablSr, It Ira suggested that. t
`ont-ector continue testing' by v srsrina also the processing tires aria out onrt.
Custom Printing
ec -asittee meeber9 present e greed that the ?aua +.itvr of
_ the last r;ission left very little to be desired on an individual. be?sisa.
in teris of density differences had been accompli shed and that the
cue rvgay-,r
dare of breaking each asss into two oa?ual parts had not been s tri etl v
_ ol_losaed on the last Imissi.on. B," l~rcaliin;x the oririml negative into sit I car
t.rid .ter incr tints and, adjusting the exOsattrrs inaz 2rf*r_t to be
t7os Lave rma fsu - aeautant ;91.1'x" i (,e- f,
3ieg et lye can be generated.
to editing a the car i_gina.? ne ti ve .
the r= treetcar ? i,te rated to satin 'v this individual preferencn5of' tile ,I,,
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;would be inaurz ouritable. Since the needs and reouirements of all of the
.y~t .1ttee members are basically the same, the individual pref'erenc: a :could
a,e tbers of the c, I who receive =,6 -prints frosri the original, . the
largely on some rather intenfable, psycho-physical c,spectz rather
requirentss.
by the
r delivery of
eed at this meeti.rT. that sow definite stag
con;ittee members regarding the pressure on the contra tar
the individual materials from each mission. has alp
flt~
b cn ;inali li very strict time limitation and it was agreed to iiwesti'gate
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hi area co ~ple lfv ao that rea l frov imaginary] requirer enta could be
Uffferentieted. If
thft
sressttre for speed can be eliminated or lessened
allow the contractor to do more editing of the original. rat
ISM IS perhaps s i.p if :i cattt to mention at this l r point that ell
~,r rQw,tt( Cti nti.t, f-&JAA in l~n?
the above-mentioned editing is necessary,, ` prii ter ;4 i.ch in-
ful.l.y, autos ati c exp&sure control. The contractor meted that
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hi.ssticated processing ecx.j ^enw. in this connection the subject of
:-uc-th e `1r_interis being investigated by his company, together with rmor~e
' ing the contractors facility and equipment was briefly discussed..
at Westover APB has recentlyvy let
for a fu y autos a.tic t rocessssing machine which incoroorntes
in < devices for automatic readout of the development of the latent e
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nrovid.en for com nsating develomment controls ~rtthin
range of at/stops under and over-exposure in the original r^ater:i.a.t. M
^ is also Inves3tivatinst several continuous roll printers for the transfer
resolution materials. It in suggested that UI sub= ittee be
=, no:: nt ed by the ehnii roan to ma.t:e a new evaluation of the Westover a acil ty
or to IM s %bi M ?k-%
o contractor's' facility,
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