on silver images on black-and-white images on three separate master positives

English translation: on silver images, as black-&-white images, as three separate master positives

16:50 Dec 6, 2005

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English term or phrase: on silver images on black-and-white images on three separate master positives

DVD bonus audio commentary where image restoration techniques are being discussed.

You're doing two things: you're preserving and you're restoring. When you have a colour picture, you make basically separate records of the three primary colours ***on silver images on black-and-white images on three separate master positives***, And these can be recombined in the future and there will be no colour fading, as colour dyes do fade, unfortunately.

My question is not about the terminology, but about the sentence structure. There are so many "on's" there that I don't know what is on what in this process. Perhaps there are some punctuation or spelling mistakes (OR instead of ON between "silver images" and "black-and-white images"? - just guessing). Or perhaps to experts in photography everything is perfectly clear. Hope you can help me :o)

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Selected answer:on silver images, as black-&-white images, as three separate master positives

Explanation:
This is typically sloppy speech, the person trying to explain what they mean without putting in the 'lubricating words' that are needed in writing.

Although it's not entirely necessary to punctuate it (except to try and indicate how they spoke it), I would suggest the above as one way to alter it slightly to make it more understandable.

They key thing to note is that this is NOT a list of DIFFERENT things; all these things relate to the SAME process.

I would probably express it thus:

colour images are recorded as a three-colour separation consisting of three master positives recorded in the form of black-&-white silver-halide images

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Tony M
France
Local time: 21:12

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Thank you sooooo much, Dusty! I would have never figured it out by myself. Your explanation is very, very helpful. Now I finally see the light :o)
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on silver images, as black-&-white images, as three separate master positives

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missing commas

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A lot of the time transcriptions don't follow all the language rules. Judging by what the speaker is trying to say, these sentence elements should be separated with commas.

Mikhail Kropotov
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on silver images, as black-&-white images, as three separate master positives

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Thank you sooooo much, Dusty! I would have never figured it out by myself. Your explanation is very, very helpful. Now I finally see the light :o)

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