Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gene, Just to add to the story, any lab that is using a digital printer, Frontier, will give you very good B&W results from any film, even color. The troubel is with the optical printers as even a small change in the slope of the negative will give odd color casts. Most of the time an operator will add a little yellow and red to give a definate sepia look to avoid having green, neutral, and red images on the same roll. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 4/16/06, Grduprey@aol.com <Grduprey@aol.com> wrote: > > In a message dated 4/16/2006 9:58:42 AM Central Daylight Time, > SonC@aol.com > writes: > Several of the BW color negative films have no amber mask, thus > when printed > on color paper have a sepia to yellow cast to the print. If the lab has > a > proper channel for these films, they will come out nice B&W. If you are > printing on silver BW paper, or from scanned negs, you get a true BW > print. > > > > Sonny, > > That was probably the problem, as I get really nice B&W priints here at > home. > The local camera shop has a really good lab and people who do the work. A > bit more expensive than my wife likes, but it is worth it. > > Gene > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >