Bill, these are RA4 prints in both cases. The CVS Pharmacy lab used the Kodak setup but it was a chemical based minilab. The Costco uses Noritsu and Fuji equipment, using the Fuji Super Gloss RA4 paper. I guess, from other comments I have received, the windows in the plane did in fact cut my contrast just enough that the enhanced contrast of the minilab prints gave me a good print. Then when I tried to print inkjet at home using my normal workflow the prints were lacking in contrast. It has been a long time since I shot aerials, and I have never shot through tinted windows, so I guess I have forgotten some of the pitfalls encountered. Thanks all for your inputs.
Walt On 4/22/08, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- 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. > -- 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.
