> I don't care what sort of scanner it is, you are now making a comparison of > a first generation image to a third generation image. > The sad fact of life is that if you want to pull the best you can from film, > you need to print it optically.
That is so true. I recently had some prints done from 35mm negatives shot on superia reala 100. I knew the negatives were good because I had previously scanned them and was happy with the results. One of them had bagged me a number of acceptances and hon mentions in a few competitions. Well to cut a long story short I took these negs to the last remaining lab who still does colour printing the traditional way using a colour enlarger, obviously this is low volume work and it is'nt cheap but the resulting prints were just amazing. The detail and tonal quality of the print were so much better than the scanned version. There was detail in the print that I had never seen before. It is as shame that such skills are being lost.. This guy does hand printing more as a passion for the art because commercially it is not viable any more. Regards Patrick -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
