Not happy with prints from Kodak T400CN
Hi, this is my first post to this group, so Hi everyone!
I've receantly started playing around with black and white, and as I'm travelling it's quite hard to get to a darkroom or a decent lab so I've been trying the C41 process films. The first lot I had developed in a 'pro' lab and was fairly happy with, but just got contact sheets so I could later on decide which to get printed. The second lot I had done in a normal lab and had prints done, and they were awful! There was no tonal variation, everything was either black, white or one shade of grey. I'm not really expreienced enough to tell from the negatives how they'd look printed properly. So basically, anyone got any ideas? I'm hopeing that it's just crap prints on cheap paper, and if they were done on B&W paper by someone who knew what they were doing they would look ok. Or maybe it's just my inexperience at choosing subjects (mainly landscape & buildings) and composing. Has anyone else had decent prints done from a lab or does getting them done properly make all the difference? Thanks in advance, Phil |
Not happy with prints from Kodak T400CN
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Not happy with prints from Kodak T400CN
Greetings Phil,
If it were I, Phil, I would bring in the contact sheet that you liked and tell those at the lab you are trying to duplicate to see if they can match the quality. If they can and at a better price, all well and good. But make sure you note your expectations as without them you are at the mercy of lab. If there is something wrong with the film or the exposures are off, they can tell you quickly right up front. Give it a try. Talk to you soon, Ron Baird Eastman Kodak Company "Phil" wrote in message om... Hi, this is my first post to this group, so Hi everyone! I've receantly started playing around with black and white, and as I'm travelling it's quite hard to get to a darkroom or a decent lab so I've been trying the C41 process films. The first lot I had developed in a 'pro' lab and was fairly happy with, but just got contact sheets so I could later on decide which to get printed. The second lot I had done in a normal lab and had prints done, and they were awful! There was no tonal variation, everything was either black, white or one shade of grey. I'm not really expreienced enough to tell from the negatives how they'd look printed properly. So basically, anyone got any ideas? I'm hopeing that it's just crap prints on cheap paper, and if they were done on B&W paper by someone who knew what they were doing they would look ok. Or maybe it's just my inexperience at choosing subjects (mainly landscape & buildings) and composing. Has anyone else had decent prints done from a lab or does getting them done properly make all the difference? Thanks in advance, Phil |
Not happy with prints from Kodak T400CN
"Ron Baird" wrote in message ...
Greetings Phil, If it were I, Phil, I would bring in the contact sheet that you liked and tell those at the lab you are trying to duplicate to see if they can match the quality. If they can and at a better price, all well and good. But make sure you note your expectations as without them you are at the mercy of lab. If there is something wrong with the film or the exposures are off, they can tell you quickly right up front. Give it a try. Talk to you soon, Ron Baird Eastman Kodak Company Thanks everyone! I'm actually flying to New Zealand tommorow so I can't re-vist the lab which did the prints, but I'm going to find a 'pro' lab in Auckland and ask them to do some work on a couple of the shots and see what the result is like. And from now on I think I'm going to start using 'proper' black & white - was thinking of trying some Ilford Delta 100 and Kodak T-max 100 to start with. I should be in NZ for several months at least, so while I'll proberly still have to get the negs developed in a lab, if I find a good one I hope I can build a relationship with them and get some good results from them. Well, within my own capabilities that is... ;-) Thanks for your replys, if anyone is interested on the print results from a decent lab I'll post here when I get them back. Phil |
Not happy with prints from Kodak T400CN
I've had a similar experience with XP-2. The routine photofinishing prints
look terrible - muddy. My photofinisher uses black and white paper for them, too. But when I print them at home, the results are marvelous. There seems to be nothing wrong with the film or the negative processing. The routine photofinishing lab just can't print them. This is probably because they have their machines set incorrectly for this king of film. "Phil" wrote in message om... Hi, this is my first post to this group, so Hi everyone! I've receantly started playing around with black and white, and as I'm travelling it's quite hard to get to a darkroom or a decent lab so I've been trying the C41 process films. The first lot I had developed in a 'pro' lab and was fairly happy with, but just got contact sheets so I could later on decide which to get printed. The second lot I had done in a normal lab and had prints done, and they were awful! There was no tonal variation, everything was either black, white or one shade of grey. I'm not really expreienced enough to tell from the negatives how they'd look printed properly. So basically, anyone got any ideas? I'm hopeing that it's just crap prints on cheap paper, and if they were done on B&W paper by someone who knew what they were doing they would look ok. Or maybe it's just my inexperience at choosing subjects (mainly landscape & buildings) and composing. Has anyone else had decent prints done from a lab or does getting them done properly make all the difference? Thanks in advance, Phil |
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