RE: prints contrast question

[Joseph Tainter]

Mischka wrote:

just to have this done with, what i shot was pretty harsh mediterranian 
sun on supra 400. what has really surprised me is that the slides seem 
to turn out much better than the prints (and the print *film*, scanned, 
much better than slides -- but that's not surprising at all).

I have exactly the same problem. Much of what I shoot is in sunny New 
Mexico and Mali.

It is my understanding that color negative film has greater range than 
color slide film, and both have much, much greater range than color 
paper. So your results are exactly as they should be.

Joe