Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]############# I have just gone to a professional lab, supposedly the best in the city (Lumichrom in Breslau, just outside Kitchener), to get some 8X10 prints. After spending $250, they look like crap, very dull and flat, with low contrast. Was I ever disappointed. ############# Dave, I've done a lot of "cibachrome" processing in the past, and when it works, it works great. But I found it very very hard to get consistent or satisfactory results. One of the problems was always my insistance that the final image should look exactly like the slide. I now believe this is impossible, even though I've not done any darkroom work in the new Ilfochrome era. BUT, last weekend I printed some images on the Epson photo700 from slides I'd scanned on an old Nikon Coolscan [and even better those from a photo CD] and the results were amazingly good. Its quite quick, and compared to the cost you have been paying cheap. They may not last forever, but you can always re-print in a year or so if you want to keep that image on the wall ;-) I've got lots to learn about printing with the ink-jet printer, but so far I'm very happy. One note of caution. Somewhere I read that scanning from Kodachrome can be difficult because of the image dye layers scattering the laser or something. If I find it again, I'll comment more, but does anyone else know anything about this? Alastair Firkin, http://users.netconnect.com.au/~firkin/AGFhmpg.html