Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Doug, Going digital sounds like the perfect solution to my problem. I don't have the patience to produce color prints the old fashioned way. Do you have any knowledge of how a quite good scanner attached to a PC would compare with having Kodak do the scan? Regards, Bud - ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Herr <Telyt@compuserve.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 9:42 PM Subject: [Leica] Obtaining Color Prints > Bud Cook wrote: > > >>> > Now there is a third option (digital) but that's not cheap either if the > goal is to have better than drug store quality results. > > So where do LUGgers get prints made? At what price? What kind of quality > are you getting? > > TIA, > Bud Cook > <<< > > Bud, > > I've had the same problem since I love the colors, exquisite detail and > longevity of a decent Kodachrome and until I went digital there was nothing > that could give me the quality I wanted. I have several chromes which, due > to a variety of factors, were unprintable (IMHO) before digital. The > processes I've tried included Kodalux, custom Cibachromes, home > Cibachromes, custom type-C via interneg, and the closest I got before > digital were the home Cibachromes. The digital prints, even from a 4-ink > printer, blow the Cibas away. Digital prints of Kodachromes made with > Leica glass are mind-boggling. > > The standard Kodak PhotoCD scans have been more than adequate for prints up > to 8x10, costing about $3 per scan plus $10 for a disk that can store scans > of 100 images. I already had Photoshop, but the Photo Deluxe software > bundled with many printers will do a good job too. > > Doug Herr > Sacramento > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt >