Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 15:03 01/02/98 -0500, you wrote: >Dear Colleagues, >Perhaps we should encourage large national commercial labs like Clark and >York to do first rate B&W work. But they would need urging. At present the >quality is very spotty -- and I mean that literally. >The fact is that B&W done well will outlast color and has its own techniques >and esthetics. We would have everything to gain if 35mm B&W would have parity >with color. >Bob R In the UK, decent black and white d&p is easily available. One of the large labs, York, has a specialist-but-affordable lab called York Excel who do really good but reasonably priced work as a matter of course. Another company called Speilmann do it too- not quite so good but mostly okay. I used to read the complaints about black and white processing in the USA and couldn't believe it, but I suppose its actually true. But there is no good reason why you shouldn't have decent b&w processing over there too. Joe Berenbaum