----- Original Message ----- From: David Brooks Subject: Prints from slides(unmounted)
> 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. If they flopped the slide, the inage will, by definition, not be in the plane of focus, hence the image will be unsharp. The biggest problem with print from slide is contrast increase. By the counter persons own definition, if the slide looks good, they should be able to produce a good print from it. William Robb - 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 .
