Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Try to find a color head with an 'Auto Levels' feature - it will save you a lot of headaches when your colors are just slightly too pink (or green, or cyan, or magenta, or bland, or exposure is off). :) :) One nice thing about digital is how easy it is to color balance and tune exposures. Ilfochromes are great, but I spend 10 times as long on each print as I do with B&W printing or digital (but then, I'm only into color for a year now). I have never seen a digital print I can afford to make at home that is close to what I can get from an Ilfochrome in my darkroom. And those P30 chemicals are just so pleasant to smell... Good Luck, - - marc bourgeois and biblical wrote: > matthew: > >> Do the processes for creating prints from slides (Cibachrome?) >> present any >> significant advance in quality over a good 1280 print? > > > they'll last forever, and nothing, as yet, can match a good > ciba/ilfochrome in terms of color saturation and luminosity. they're > a pain in the butt to make, though. the chemistry and paper is really > expensive, the process rather laborious and easily screwed up. i > *almost* sold all my ilfochrome stuff when i started my current job > running a fuji frontier lab (which prints slides beautifully), but now > that i'm moving to chicago, i'm glad i didn't. i'm even going to try > making a joboesque film processor with my motor base. > > but, having said that, i'd urge you to get a colorhead enlarger. > it'll give you a great deal of creative control, and, if you ever do > want to do any of your own ilfochromes or RA-4 prints, you'll have the > head you need. at least get a multi-contrast head. those filters are > easily scratched and they fade. you'll end up using one almost all > the time, and it will wear out or get scratched, necessitating a whole > new filter pack. > > -- > brad daly > bwdaly@bigfatpipe.net > http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly > http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly/paw.html > > "America sells everything with sex and then recoils when presented > with the realities of natural process." > --Jock Sturges > > "War, what is it good for? It's good for business." > --Billy Bragg > > All my family problems disappeared overnight. > We're all takin' Zoloft, and everything is fine. > My sister's teen angst just flew out the window. > Momma's so happy, she laughs all the time. > --Patterson Hood > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- *** Marc Attinasi *** * mailto: marc@attinasi.org * * http://www.attinasi.org * - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html