----- Original Message ----- From: "Kostas Kavoussanakis" Subject: "Do not warm colours"
> > William, I hope you are reading this :-) > > I once suggested to my photolab that the rose I had shot (neg) looked > too yellow compared to reality. They suggested that I mark my > mail-forms "do not warm colours" and so I have been doing over the > past 4 years. > > I know that photolabs add yellow to warm the pictures and I read the > discussion the other day about a photog suggesting that no customer > ever complains about the photos being too warm (they had not heard > about me, obviously :-)). > > What I am wondering is if (with a Frontier minilab in this case) it is > trivial to "not warm colours". Would any lab be able to carry out the > request? And would this (and the same minilab) suffice to get > identical pictures from the same negative? > Any lab should be able to carry out such a request. If you think the lab consistently prints things too yellow, ask them to minus a yellow or two from your work. If the operator looks at you with the dumbstruck look normally reserved for the first time you see a space alien, you can point out that the keyboard has more than just a start key, and ask what do they think the buttons marked Y, M, and C stand for, and why are there buttons marked -4 to +5? William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
