Joseph Tainter wrote: >That hit the nail on the head. Long before digital I found my self >unable to find a custom lab that was consistently good. And the WalMart >type of lab was orrfull... I believe that most of the "serious" >photographers when to digital because they could not get good processing.
I "went digital" before I ever bought a digital camera (by scanning and then doing my own printing on an inkjet), not because I couldn't get good printing, but because even the best custom lab couldn't do things I could achieve easily at home. The epiphany came when I picked up a custom print from the excellent custom lab that I frequented at the time and realized that what they produced just didn't come close to the result I had in my mind's eye. A result I knew *was* achievable because of the B&W darkroom work I'd done. I bought an Epson 1270 and with only a few very basic Photoshop adjustments (like simulating a split-ND filter), got a much better print than the lab gave me. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
