No, the Fuji minilabs here use Frontier machine, it laser expose the regular
print paper, no inks. I believe all other minilabs use similar technique and
I know an old Agfa machine uses CRT to expose print paper, no ink for all
small prints
C.H.Ling
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Hudson" <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Don't commercial print labs use the CMYK regimen of print colours and
> inks?
>
> jh
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "C.H.Ling" <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 11:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [OM] On free film...
>
>
>> Yes, the minilab scan has very different color calibration to normal
>> sRGB,
>> usually very high sharpening too. A proper scanned and adjusted image
>> will
>> be much better, just finished 19 rolls of negatives from a trip to Europe
>> in
>> 1992. Here are two samples:
>>
>> Olympus XA, F5.6, Kodak Gold 100-2
>>
>> http://www.accura.com.hk/temp/EU92_04_15.jpg
>>
>> OM40, Kodak Ektar 100, Zuiko 35-105 1st version (early morning, shot
>> through
>> holtel room window)
>>
>> http://www.accura.com.hk/temp/EU92_16_03.jpg
>>
>> C.H.Ling
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>> Jim Nichols wrote:
>>>>> I would agree with you. My little 6.3mp Fujifilm F10 has produced
>>>>> some
>>>>> images that just blew me away. After several years of having C41 film
>>>>> processed to CD by a department store lab, I was amazed at the
>>>>> resolution
>>>>> that the little camera provided.
>>>>>
>>> Hardly a fair comparison. Nothing against the F10, I liked mine so much
>>> I went to an F30 and Carol is still using the F10. On the other hand, if
>>> you shot it with the EV setting wrong and a softening filter, then
>>> mis-set contrast in an editor, that would be closer to what was being
>>> done to your film shots.
>>>
>>> The difference between a minilab CD of scanned film images and proper
>>> scans is just enormous.
>>>
>>> Moose
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