does anyone know, how much contrast can color paper (specifically fuji crystal archive) handle? the reason i am asking is that i just came back from a vataction and got back a batch of prints. which do suck by any definition of it: no shadow detail, blown out highlights. true, the original light was pretty harsh, still i was very upset. until i looked at a bach of slides i took under the same conditions. which were nothing like the prints! now i am scanning the print film, i notice that often i cannot get the whole dynamic range with a single pass (nikonscan 4000), i have to scan once for shadows and once for highlights. but altogether it looks like the film captures most of the dynamic range of the scene. my question is: what's the point of so wide lattitude of print film, if it cannot be printed anyway (in pre-scanner era)? or, is it just a particularly bad kind of paper i ran into?
best, mishka
