Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 3/13/00 1:22:45 PM, tekapo@golden.net writes: >What do Scala prints look like quality-wise? Aye, that's the rub. I use Scala as my principal b & w film. Strictly amateur.. I love the look and the pushability makes makes it usable in 99% of the situations that I encounter including available darkness. I have not yet found a really good way of making prints (mostly enlargements to 8x10 and 11x14. II resorted to taking the same slide to every pro lab in the area including the local Scala processor and asked for an 11x14. The type R's came back with every possible color cast from green to pink and the prints made from an interneg lost the sharpness that is one of Scala's attributes. So far, the best results I've gotten are from a drum scan and printing on a lightjet. Unfortunately the that did it is very inconsistent with their quality and expensive. I read somewhere (can't remember the source) that Ilfochrome works very well with Scala and will be trying that. Ultimately it looks like I'll be saving my pennies for a high end film scanner, an Epson 1200 and photoshop. If anyone has any better Ideas I'd love to hear them. Off this topic, but onto another one, I'm one of those lurkers who rarely posts. There is nothing sinister in this, I just rarely have anything to contribute that isn't usually covered by people with a lot more Leica knowledge than I have. Gerry