[Leica] Chromogenic Films.....

[jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)]

If the person in the minilab just shoots everything through without any
color correction, then the prints will be sepia, purple, or whatever. If the
person takes the time to set the machine so that the tint is "neutral", the
prints will be better. I think Chris W. had told me that there is a kind of
paper that can be used for those films so that they are black and white, but
I never expect a Costco, Sam's, Walmart, or Walgreens to have that paper.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com
http://400tx.blogspot.com/



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From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Frank
Filippone
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 9:14 PM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Leica] Chromogenic Films.....


I am feeling a bit stupid in this .....

Are you telling me that IF the high school junior manning the local 1 hour
minilab knows what she is doing, I have a chance to get good prints using
either film?  Sounds like the response is yes.....

Is there anything that needs to be told to the HS ( etc.) kid to make the
chance of getting decent prints better?  Sounds like you need to tell the
operator that it is B+W film.... (It doesn't look, act, nor print like color
film, and there is no color, so why do we need to tell them anything?...
Right... HS Kid.....  I forgot)

Assuming the film is always used by the minilab folk, and no darkroom is
ever seen by the film, either film is OK to use?  The response seems to be
use either film.

So Ilford or Kodak, no difference...... is that the groups' opinion...?

Remember, my Son has no darkroom and no scanner ( good point on using the
minilab to make a CD of the images), so it needs to be totally turnkey.....


Frank Filippone
red735i@earthlink.net 




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