Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Austin, with regard to automated printing, find the nearest lab that is using the Fuji Frontier equipment. With little or no effort on the part of the operator color balance will be excellent. Currently, your best bet would be Wal-Mart or Costco as many of them have upgraded. The equipment is important as these machines have substantially automated color balance, chemistry mixing and replenishment, and look up tables for most films. End result is very high quality from minimally trained staff. As an alternative, Noritsu and Agfa provide very similar equipment so if your local store has recently upgraded to a "digital lab" the above will substantially apply. The overexposure suggestion was especially geared for tungsten/incandescent lighting. This is true with any film shot under these conditions as film is least sensitive to red light. If you are shooting under normal mixed lighting then the overexposure is largely unnecessary for general use. On the other hand, if you tend to overexpose all negative films to boost shadow detail then of course these films will respond in the same fashion. Last, many of the chains (Wal-Mart, Target, Ritz, perhaps even your local grocery store) are selling four rolls of 24 exposure in the $11.00 range. Try it this way as the consumer version is substantially the same as the press film most of us have been suggesting. If you like it, then the press film is most economically purchased in 20 roll propacks(36exp) at about $60. Don dorysrus@mindspring.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html