In a message dated 1/6/2003 12:22:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> William Robb Didn't want to leave you with the impression I was complaining about more info. Re: Story about old film and pink prints -- I have a barely adequate color printer. And I had the the film put on disk, that's how I could print them out myself after I found the drug store cropped them wrong. The prints were so bad, age-wise (10+++ years), it's didn't matter if they came out poorly at home. The thing I couldn't figure out, is when I pulled up the prints from disk, they were cropped right. But the drug store had given me prints with part of one room and part of another room -- overlapping cropping. Like I said I figured whoever did them couldn't figure them out because they were so pink due to age. And maybe the pinkness somehow obscured the little divider lines between the negatives (because they are sort of red). But my conclusion was someone wasn't even watching the machine -- the operator was asleep at the wheel. That was actually months ago, before I started my last class. Now my last story. Which I haven't shared until now. Everyone told me to get a Pentax lens -- start with 50mm. So I did -- a 50mm f/2.0 (M). Took a roll. Took it over to the better drug store, the one I've been using since right after I started that class. Couldn't see the girl around who seemed to be in charge. Saw another guy who now seemed to be in charge. Got roll back. I HATED the prints. My first reaction was, boy, that 50mm lens really tanks. I can't ever mention this on the list. Why do these guys love Pentax glass??? Whoa. Stinkeroo. Now some of the photos were shot at f2, because I took a lot in the shade of some trees one day I was in the park. But some of the photos were on a dry grass covered hill. About midday. No nice yellow, all straw looking. Very white. Looks awful. Keep wondering does the lens let in too much light? The poor zoom I was using before was maybe softening the light? Okay, maybe it let in too much light because I was shooting at f 2. But, no, not when I shot the hill. I've been over and over the photos. Some stuff seems too white (sunlit areas). And some of the leaves seem too blue. For now I am concluding that lab is now no longer good since the girl who was running it seems to be gone. (Hopefully she might be there again when I return there again.) Not the lens, the developing/printing. I haven't shot another roll with that lens yet, so I can't be sure. But it seems to me you guys wouldn't rave about Pentax glass for no reason. So you can see why, in just four months (basically) of photography why I started wondering about color negatives. Three experiences that were a bit weird -- off-cropped prints, blow-ups washed out and/or with a color shift, and Pentax glass photos that look awful. That's why I asked all those questions. (And got happily answered.) The pursuit of knowledge marches on. Later, Doe aka Marnie Hehehe.
