Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Well, I shoot chromes as they're cheaper to have processed, for starters. (I do my own c-41 but get lazy about it and let it pile up.) I do project them, on occasion, but it's such a pain to set up the screen and projector and so forth. So I tend to set up the projector every six months or so and do a gala four-hour show. No one else will stay the time, so I get to glory in my own artistic soul, a true ego-boost as there's no gainsayers present! As to printing, yes, I do my own. I bitterly hate EP-2/RA-4 printing: I seem to have an innate ability to screw up the colour balance. But with Ilfochrome, you index your enlarger, and the rest is pretty much autopilot stuff. Get a good ball game on the radio, and I can zap out a couple of prints every eight or ten minutes using a drum processor (I know, I know, I know: I need a more sophisticated arrangement. But I'm cheap.) I haven't had much problem with contrast using the new Kodak E6 emulsions. It's there, but it's not bad. Where it is bad, you really should start playing games like internegs, and, for that, I'd send it out to a pro lab. There's one in town here which owes me a chunk of favors. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!