Tom Reese wrote: > > I've been shooting a lot of slides lately and took a few to a local digital > print place for some quick enlargements. I didn't expect them to measure up > to a custom print but I didn't expect them to be trash either. I thought I'd > get something usable from a commercial lab but they were awful. No contrast, > colors were off, highlights were washed out. Just terrible. Now to my > questions: > > The slides had to be scanned somehow. Are scanners that bad at reading color > slides? If what I got is the best a film scanner can do then I've lost all > interest in buying one. > ... > Thanks for any info you can provide.
No machine can perform better than the humans that planned, made, set up and operate it does. The last is the weak link. Most non pro places (and some of the pro ones) just expect machines to do all their work for them. Customer is there to teach them they're wrong. Unemployment too. I think Bill Robb and a few more can add something on this matter... Flavio
