Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve: You have some fantastic pictures from Navaholand, but I think your lab is serving you ill here. It looks like they scanned at excessively high contrast, and with sharpening not only turned on, but way up. The good news is that the images on film are probably OK. You might want to take your best negs (or are they slides?) to another lab and have them done better. I always tell the lab to "preserve highlight detail, don't jack up the contrast, and keep sharpening low or off." (the latter depending on who is running the machine). In other words, scan like VueScan, not like for typical consumer prints. Then I fix 'em up in my image editor. What kind of film did you use? --Peter At 08:40 PM 6/17/2007 -0700, Hoppy wrote: >Steve, cute kids, more than nice light and colour. >I really like the "lines" shot. Marvellous scenic. > >Sorry for a brief tech diversion; >Something's going on here regarding >film/scanning/sharpening/post-processing. >A grain effect across these just seems more prominent than I would expect. >I don't see it at all in close examination of your "Old Navajo" in BW. Steve posted: >...on the Navajo reservation, Canyon de Chelly... >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/chelly/two+kids.jpg.html