I haven't had great luck with 4x6 prints from slides either. Good sharpness, but the colors/contrast has never been great. I've had great success with Fujichrome prints, 11 x 14's from 35mm slides look stunning (they're hand printed, tho - a bit costly but the results are totally worth it).
Most of the time I've just had the slides scanned and print them myself. A roll of slides batch scanned isn't too costly, I think the lab I use charges me $20 per roll, this includes CD. The scans turn out to be 2000 x 3000 pixels, which I've printed great looking 8x10's and decent 11x14's. You're right though, a sharp neg (or slide) should result in a sharp print. As far as colors and exposure goes, what you see is what you get. Cheers! Brian On 29 Jul 2002 at 11:17, David Brooks wrote: > Following up on a thread i had last month > about printing from slide film,I found a local > 1 hour chain has a machine to print from slide film > on 4x6 5x7 and 8x10 with out haveing to do the > interneg(so told to me)at the main store south of > were i live. > I had them do 2 test prints(i gave the negs to the > outlet were i live and they sent them down for me) > Both came back reversed and fuzzy.However when i look > at the image both by eye and a 55mm f1.8 as a loupe, > they appear nice and crisp on the neg strip. > When i mentioned they looked bad,her comment was,with > positive images there is no room to play,you get what > you get. > I feel if the image on the strip is clean,the print should > be too,correct.Almost looks like they printed it with the > plastic sleeve on. > > Comments from the slide print folk please.I like the look > of the slide image,but if i cannot print out a good 35mm > print,not much use to me then.(Epson 2450 does not scan 35 well) > However the 120 6x6's are better scanned. > > Dave - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
