Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]For those of you in the Los Angeles vicinity, there is/was a transplanted Frenchman named Gerard (last name escapes me) who was a real master printer. He owned a lab called Focus Foto on La Brea; you can google it and call to see if he is still in business. He apprenticed in Paris back in HCB's time and may still have a story or two to tell. He made some absolutely wonderful prints for me (much better than the images deserved) when I was shooting film around the turn of the century (gosh that sounds so long ago).... --Bob ===On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Richard Man <richard.lists at gmail.com> wrote: > Dr. Ted is of course correct that KISS is best (p.s. Uncle Ted, please send > me your book and email me the cost, thx), as he said in the HCB thread. > > However, it's also a well known fact that his printer would probably have > committed murder to salvage the negs if they are not so great. The exposure > is everywhere. Hence the M8 in auto mode really would have been the best > for > HCB - his printer probably would not lost as much hair! :-) Auto-S mode > with > auto-ISO, RAW mode, that's as simple as it gets, and get a slave printer to > do your post processing and printing. > > -- > // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com > // w: http://www.rfman.com > // b: http://rfman.wordpress.com >