[Leica] Re: High ISOs Comparison

[rsphotoimages at comcast.net (Bob Shaw)]

Peter:

Here's a sudden example (just picked the disc up this afternoon 
(Thursday 12/7):

One roll of  Ilford XP-2 super 400 36 exp (Chromogenic Black and White 
for C-41 machines) cost $ 3.25 to develop and scan 36 images to disc.

I loaded the CD onto my Mac (iPhoto) and picked one image at random.  
Here are the stats on this B&W Scan:
      JPEG  3.6Mb 96 dpi  2724x1819 Pixels

So the range for the B&W images are between 3.5 a 3.8Mb per JPEG.  
Color would of course be more.

Just for giggles, I dumped it into Photoshop Elements 4.0 for Mac, 
adjusted the contrast and saturation to my "viewfinder memory" of the 
shot, and printed it on Epson Enhanced mate 8.5 x 11 Archival Paper.  
Made a very nice 8x10 portrait of our Border Collie - lots of eye 
detail, whiskers easing back in to nice bokeh (R Vario Elmarit 28-80 at 
f4.0 and Metz 54 bouncved off the ceiling to enhance daylight through 
the widow behind me.

I've had similar result at 8x10 with my better color scan.  Prints of 
the negs would of course be better.  If you want to see this particular 
image, email me at rsphotoimages@comcast.net.

Regards,

Bob



On Dec 6, 2006, at 22:35, Peter Klein wrote:

Bob:  What is the resolution of your Costco scans? The ones I get from 
Costco at Aurora Village are 3087x2048, about six megapixels.  The JPGs 
are about 2 - 3 megabytes each.  Is this what you get, or does your 
store have higher-resolution machines?

The ones I get are OK for the Web, or a 5x7, but not if I need to crop 
much.

The idea was I'd use the Costco scans for routine Web stuff and small 
prints, and re-scan the better ones myself at 4000 dpi to get higher 
quality.  But I hate scanning, so I don't do it that much.

--Peter

At 12:37 PM 12/6/2006 -0800, Bob Shaw <rsphotoimages@comcast.net> wrote:
> Although it really depends on the lab and their equipment, I am
> generally dissatisfied with C-41 print quality.  To offset this, I have
> all C-41 developed at Costco and scanned to a high resolution gold disc
> at Costco.  I also have my Kodachrome slides scanned at Costco.  The
> Costco warehouse  store I go to is across the street from their HQ in
> Issaquah, WA and employs the latest Fuji Frontier systems.