> > http://grabun.com/tmp/odbitka-1.jpg )
> lot of the dynamic range in a print with less "pop", while most are
> happy to throw away the extremes of brightness and pump up contrast and
> saturation to please snapshooters.
I haven't put myself clearly: I personally prefer the upper one which
has better and more natural color rendition and reflects better what I
actually tried to picturize. The bottom one has eye-candy colors that
I do not fancy that much after all.
> Here in the US, "professional" processing tends toward the former while
> 1 hour labs, drug stores, etc. do the latter. Even with the same brand
> name. For quality printing of color negs, you need to either:
> 1. Find a place that pleases you.
Tough. There's no *analog* labs here in Warsaw, most of them - if not
all - print them digitally, scanning them first and them throwing them
onto glossy - yuck - paper. I found *one* - literally - place that
still has color prints made on photo enlarger in offer but 13x18cm
print costs $5 which is a bit out of my financial capabilities.
> 2. Scan the negs yourself and either:
> a. Have them printed by a place that will do it without any
> adjustment on their part.
A good scanner, anyone? I tried to scan Superia 800 on Epson 4490 I
own and couldn't get any good results. Most of scans had a green color
cast; I couldn't remove it in photo manipulation program without
spoiling other colors :-(
> The option of slides is only attractive IMO if you are planning to show
> them with a projector. Otherwise, their more limited dynamic range is
> just a limitation color neg. doesn't have. Scanning is about equally
> easy with either, at least for me, but getting good prints from labs is
> more difficult than for neg film.
Scanning slides was never a problem for Epson if one is willing to
give up the rendition of shadow details. Most of shots from here were
scanned by myself on Epson 4490:
http://grabun.com/zdjecia/2007/zawilce/
Results are pretty good, for my eye, but then again the dynamic range
of those shots isn't that wide...
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Lukasz Grabun
http://www.grabun.com/
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