On Mar 23, 2006, at 5:29 AM, Bruce Dayton wrote:
even though my lab had all the masks and lenses to print the 67
negs, they
were using the crappy scanners on the Agfa D-Lab, so once you got past
a 12 X 18, the image quality started to suffer because of the scan.
I had a couple of 12x18" trial prints done from 6x7 when my lab
installed their D-Lab 2. I'm glad they were done for free because
they really weren't very good. The shadow detail was terrible, but I
admit that a machine designed for high volume can't be expected to
produce fine art.
When I sent them digital files, the results were very good.
Getting a good scan to print bigger was very costly.
I did a simple calculation the other day... the price of my scanner
divided by the approximate amount of scans I've done with it. It
didn't look pretty. Oh well, I guess I'm paying for the control I
have over the process. As I progress through my scanning project,
the cost-per-scan will start to look a bit more reasonable.
BTW the lab is switching to a Frontier at the end of the month,
presumably due to the demise of Agfa.
Cheers,
- Dave
