Re: [Leica] Kodachrome Print help

["Joe Stephenson" <joeleica@email.msn.com>]

Dave,
I don't know how many prints of what size you got for your $250.00, but her
in New Mexico a local custom lab charges $12,00 for an 8 X 10, If you shoot
Kodacolor and include a gray card, you get very good color rendering and
beautiful prints. Not "hot," or reved up like some processes, but pleasing
and life-like.
Joe Stephenson
- -----Original Message-----
From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@netconnect.com.au>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Friday, September 18, 1998 6:15 PM
Subject: [Leica] Kodachrome Print help

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>I have just gone to a professional lab, supposedly
>the best in the city (Lumichrom in Breslau, just outside Kitchener), to get
>some 8X10 prints. After spending $250, they look like crap, very dull and
>flat, with low contrast. Was I ever disappointed.
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>
>Dave,
>
>I've done a lot of "cibachrome" processing in the past, and when it works,
>it works great. But I found it very very hard to get consistent or
>satisfactory results. One of the problems was always my insistance that the
>final image should look exactly like the slide. I now believe this is
>impossible, even though I've not done any darkroom work in the new
>Ilfochrome era. BUT, last weekend I printed some images on the Epson
>photo700 from slides I'd scanned on an old Nikon Coolscan [and even better
>those from a photo CD] and the results were amazingly good. Its quite
>quick, and compared to the cost you have been paying cheap. They may not
>last forever, but you can always re-print in a year or so if you want to
>keep that image on the wall ;-)
>
>I've got lots to learn about printing with the ink-jet printer, but so far
>I'm very happy.
>
>One note of caution. Somewhere I read that scanning from Kodachrome can be
>difficult because of the image dye layers scattering the laser or
>something. If I find it again, I'll comment more, but does anyone else know
>anything about this?
>
>Alastair Firkin,
>
>http://users.netconnect.com.au/~firkin/AGFhmpg.html
>
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