Hi Gasha didn't they crop parts of your photos, the "A4" prints described as 20x30 are more like 20x27cm here? Or can you choose if you want the photos scaled down with a border? greetings Markus
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gasha Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 3:31 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Film vs. Digital - not a religion It is true, all labs now print on some Noritsu machine. And they do 3072x2048 scanning during process. This weekend i sent 6x4.5 scanned Provia 100F to lab, and resized it to that size to get A4 (20x30cm) image. Print was good, much better than most of other pics, and i managed to get 1st place in competition :) But i know, that it was not good enough. Even if you want to print some hi-detail picture in small size, it is not so easy to do it... Gasha Patrick Genovese wrote: >>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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
