----- Original Message ----- From: "Walter Hamler" Subject: Re: Printing Aerial Photography Shots
> Bill, the 4x6's that I had done in GA were done on a Kodak kiosk to a > minilab printer, also Kodak. There are no print data on the back, > just file name/number. > On the 8x12's that Costco did they use Noritsu and Fuji printers. > The second line on the back reads 1211 081 N N N N NH Z094.2/ 100.0 > > All 26 prints read the same. > > All of the rendering was done in LR, exported as highest quality > jpegs, and burned to a CD to take to the lab. There was very littly > difference in the settings that I used in ACR. They all required a > little increase in brightness, very minor tweaks in color and/or hue, > clarity to 50, Contrast to 40 to 50, sharpening to 85 at 0.8 pixels. > Each file is around 8.5 to 9.5 meg. Shot with the K-10D and 50~200 DA > lens, 1000sec @ f/6.3, mostly at 150 to 200 mm except the closeups of > my brothers houses which were done at 50mm because we went down to > about 500 ft above the ground. > > If I take the same jpegs or the raws at the above settings and print > on the 1800 to 8.5 x 11, I would have to boost the contrast > considerably to attempt to match what came from Costco. Naturally the > super gloss fuji paper adds some to the appearance, but as I said > before, under most other conditions I can get a lab print and a ink > jet print to look very close. Well, that didn't tell me much, unfortunately. I did just discover that Fuji is now marketing dry minilabs that us inkjet technology rather than standard RA-4 wet printing. It was bound to happen. Anyway, as a guess, I would say that the printer is set at a much higher native contrast than what you are used to. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
