----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Reynolds"
Subject: Re: Bailing out.
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.)
I don't know about that. I find most complaints are generated because it
looked good on the customers' screen, and I can't get a good print.
My own experience tells me that if I can't get a good print at home, taking
it to work isn't going to help.
William Robb
