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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Outputting to slides
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 14:03:25 -0700

"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