Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 29/7/01 7:23 PM, Mxsmanic at mxsmanic@hotmail.com wrote: > My impression is that E-6 requires very little human intervention, otherwise > I'm > sure the high-schoolers running the machines would screw something up. Well, E-6 need to get proved almost every 10 rolls of film or equivalent film surface processed. The "color developer" suffers each time a roll is getting off it. Usually they need to measure some control strips to ensure that everything is OK...Sometimes the process gives a smooth yellow cast or bluish cast. Professional Labs or Custom ones do such controls very often to ensure a standard to be given to pro photographers. I don't think the "one hour" labs can do it. And, by the way, human eye is the key to check process quality beyond machines and other techniques involving electronic devices measuring density and so on... After working with E6 film for more than 20 years I have my preferences to the manual processing film over the machines... Regards Pablo