Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You may have to pay the money and use a PRO lab to get anything other than point & shoot quality. I used to have a Yokayama 1hr processor. It used EL Nikkors and produced crisp sharp prints from business card size to 12"x12". Was a cool machine. Used it in a PRO lab because people coming to the lab wanted "better" quality. Jim At 11:56 AM 5/16/98 -0400, you wrote: > Since I am now retired and have no more private access to a > film processing lab, I can only wonder about the thousands of > 4"x6" machine prints that my wife has made each year from her > African Camera Safaris ----- most just don't appear sharp to me. > She uses a R7 with many Leica lenses as well as Nikon AFs > but that is not the issue. > > Various labs over the years have been used, but I have been told just > recently, that to speed up the printing of automatic machine prints, > the lenses are usually used wide open ---- as opposed to stopping > down for custom enlargements. Am I expecting too much wanting > needle sharp machine prints or should we keep trying different labs? > > Marvin >