Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Outputting to slides
From: "Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@hfx.andara.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 18:41:16 -0300

At 02:03 PM 9/11/99 -0700, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>"Robert G. Stevens" wrote:
>> 
>> Mark:
>> 
>> If you do go to get these files put back on slides, be prepared to be
>> disappointed.  I have seen some of the best that these machines can do, and
>> the images still look soft compared to the original.  You Leica images will
>> end up looking like holga images ;-)  This is just comapring what you can
>> get on 100asa slide film to what these machines can output.
>> 
>> Eric's praise may come from having scans from 800asa print film recorded to
>> slides, rather than slower slide film being scanned, edited and output back
>> to slides.
>> 
>> I have seen a person edit a file in Photoshop, print it out on an EPson and
>> then photograph the print to get his slide.  It was most impressive.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Robert
>> 
>This is Tri x in Rodinal which I of course shot with my Leicas. What do
you think?
>You've got me thinking I should back it up with doing it both ways.
>Mark Rabiner
>
>

Mark:

You should at least do a test slide before you commit to it. 

Regards,

Robert