Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Slides or prints?
From: "Dan States" <dstate1@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 22:39:24 +0000

If you want maximum quality and don't want to print the color negs yourself, 
or by a pro shop, slides are the way to go.

Typical camera/drugstore processing sucks the life out of even the best 
color print films.  Slides tend to be more consistent, and the color in 
Kodachrome or Velvia is unmatched in print film.

Give slides a try...you will see a dramatic difference

Best wishes
Dan States
>
>
>OK, I hope I am not starting off another contentious debate here :-)
>
>I would like to know what you use/recommend, slides or prints, and what
>the advantages and disadvantages of each of these as you see it are.  I
>have never used slides (yet), only regular print film (but then, I am no
>photography expert).  The research I have done so far (yes, I actually
>did search on this before posting!) did not give me as much information
>as I would have liked, but seemed to lean towards slides.  Here is a
>quote from
>www.summitlake.com/COMPUTERS_NET/Slide_Scanning/section_014.html (in
>case you were wondering how I got to that page, that was one of the top
>links from Google for the search
>www.google.com/search?q=photo+slides+prints+advantages+disadvantages):
>"Best of all, photography professionals still seem to pretty much agree
>that the very best photos are captured on slide film."
>Is that right?
>
>Regards,
>Satish
>


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