On Mar 27, 2006, at 9:50 PM, William Robb wrote:
I dunno. If I am giving out negatives, they are readily printable at
any photolab or I haven't done my job in the first place.
Why shold digital be held to a lower standard?
It's supposed to be better.
The uncorrected negatives are just like the uncorrected files -- when
run through your standard minilab, they're averaged all over the place
and come out looking okay-to-good. Because there's a ton of
interpretation being done in colour printing from negatives, even when
Wal-Mart does it.
The problem is that the files, while printable at the local photolab,
are not printable without effort at home, and don't look good on the
screen. Just like if you held your negatives up to the light -- they
don't look so great.
To correct them in this kind of scenario, where the lab is doing all
the work, would be a ton of extra effort for the photographer. (And
there is no "corrected file" for the lab to save, either.)
-Aaron
