Nope, lazy mini lab operator thats all. --- Mishka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
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