Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/14
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korenman <leica_korenman@hotmail.com> said:
> I have been using shutterfly to make 5x7 prints from scanned negs with great
> results.
> If you are tightly calibrated to sRGB they give you great prints.
>
> However, I just sent them a scan of a 6x6 neg (7k x 7k pixels) to try out
> their new 16x20" prints.
I agree with Doug: both Calypso and West Coast Imaging are excellent.
Not only that, but Calypso's prices on 16x20 appear to be cheaper than
shutterfly, if you send them a pre-profiled tiff file so you get
"preferred pricing". If you leave the profiling up to them ("standard
pricing"), it will cost a little more (but the results will be
excellent).
BTW, the sRGB space has a very limited gamut. I do not recommend
working in sRGB. Many photographers prefer the "Ektaspace PS5"
profile as their working space. As the name implies, it conforms
well to "Ektachrome" (and most other E-6 transparency films). In
photoshop, you can tell it that your monitor is sRGB for display
purposes only (though I would recommend getting a monitor calibration
tool such as the Colorvision or Eye-One systems).
later,
Mike
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