I received this from Tom today.Now i'm red faced Cotty. Thanks again Tom for the input
Dave Some snipping from original personal data ---- Begin Original Message ---- From: "Tom Rittenhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:25:16 -0500 To: "David Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: PDML Challenge Hi Dave, Received your prints today. Nice shots. Canon S-800. Print quality E+. Full frame 4x5 is very near equal to an excellent quality minilab print. The 8x10 is more than acceptable. This is the best quality inkjet printer I have seen so far. I can tell they are digital photographs, but a lot of that is the nature of the image from the digital camera. It took the loupe to see the halftoning and then barely. Makes me wonder what they would look like with higher resolution originals. PRINTER QUALITY RATINGS: A. Awful (Why did they bother to send this.) B. Better. (Comparable to a newspaper color photo.) C. Cool (A very nice print, but not photographic in appearance. Comparable to a magazine photo.) D. Delightful (Nearly photographic quality. Comparable to a glossy magazine photo.) E. Excellent (Equal to a good mini-lab print. No halftone dots visible to the naked eye.) F. Fantastic (Equal to a custom print by an expert printer. No halftone dots visible with a 4x loupe.) Personal comments: I think that combination you are using is a very viable event rig. Most customers would be very satisfied. I used to, 8-10 years back, do things like Ren Fairs, Auto Shows, etc. with a 6x7 (Mamiya Universal Press). I would get develop and print 8x10s from a "people" lab, put them in folders. Shoot on Saturday and take the prints back on Sunday and try to sell them. My sell rate at $19.99 was about 80%. Got quite a lot more sales when I shot on speculation than when I tried to get paid up front. I doubt that many of my customers could tell the difference between the medium format and what you are doing, but the BIG BLACK CAMERA impressed the hell out of them <g>. After I moved down here to North Carolina, finding a reliable lab that would do 8x10s overnight on Saturday became nearly impossible. Pentax User Stouffville Ontario Canada Sign up today for your Free E-mail at: http://www.canoe.ca/CanoeMail - 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 .
