David, I've had lots of prints made from slides. The only time I was sorely disappointed was when the Fuji Pictrostat process was used. And the reply was similar. I believe there is not much control of it.
I have usually used an outfit in Denver called The Slideprinter. They use a direct process and do pretty good work at a very reasonable price. If they have a problem with a slide it is usually due to excessive contrast. Nowadays, the printing machines (Fuji Frontier, Agfa D-Lab) have attached scanners and they actually print digitally but with a wet print process. When operated correctly, they do a good job. If you can find a lab with one of those, you would be much better off. My opinion of the Epson 2450 scanner was that MF scanning was also not that good. I'm sure the smaller 35mm neg looks even worse, but I found that the MF stuff wasn't as sharp as a wet print or a high-res scan from my lab. Boy do I have a hankerin' for a reasonable priced MF film scanner! Bruce Monday, July 29, 2002, 8:17:50 AM, you wrote: DB> Following up on a thread i had last month DB> about printing from slide film,I found a local DB> 1 hour chain has a machine to print from slide film DB> on 4x6 5x7 and 8x10 with out haveing to do the DB> interneg(so told to me)at the main store south of DB> were i live. DB> I had them do 2 test prints(i gave the negs to the DB> outlet were i live and they sent them down for me) DB> Both came back reversed and fuzzy.However when i look DB> at the image both by eye and a 55mm f1.8 as a loupe, DB> they appear nice and crisp on the neg strip. DB> When i mentioned they looked bad,her comment was,with DB> positive images there is no room to play,you get what DB> you get. DB> I feel if the image on the strip is clean,the print should DB> be too,correct.Almost looks like they printed it with the DB> plastic sleeve on. DB> Comments from the slide print folk please.I like the look DB> of the slide image,but if i cannot print out a good 35mm DB> print,not much use to me then.(Epson 2450 does not scan 35 well) DB> However the 120 6x6's are better scanned. DB> Dave DB> Pentax User DB> Stouffville Ontario Canada DB> http://home.ca.inter.net/brooksdj/ DB> http://brooks1952.tripod.com/myhorses DB> Sign up today for your Free E-mail at: http://www.canoe.ca/CanoeMail DB> - DB> This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, DB> go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to DB> visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
