Re: HIE developing and 70mm (was: Some basics Please (Part II)

[Larry Bullis <lbullis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

George Smyth wrote:

>If someone screws up a print it's no big deal.  A negative, OTOH, is
>a completely different case.  We all have our own priorities, however.  I 
>can only
>relate to my own.

I'll let other people print my negatives.  I can ask them to redo that.  
But once a decision has been made about developing the film, making 
changes are tough, radical, and risky.

With me, it is not even a question of them screwing it up, really.  It is 
just that I do certain things for very definite and specific reasons.  I 
choose developers very carefully for certain qualities I want to achieve. 
 One developer does not necessarily equal another, and it's not a matter 
of one being "better" and the other being "worse".   Labs, on the other 
hand,  choose generic processes for reasons of convenience.  They may do 
it perfectly, and I may still not like it, and it will be too late.

If mistakes are to be made, I want to be the one who makes them.  And I 
do, believe me.

Glad I'm not the only one.


Larry Bullis
Skagit Valley College


*
****
*******
******************************************************
*  To remove yourself from this list, send:          *
*         UNSUBSCRIBE INFRARED                       *
*       to                                           *
*         MAJORDOMO@xxxxx                            *
*----------------------------------------------------*
*   For the IR-FAQ, IR-Gallery and heaps of links:   *
*  http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/mainpage.htm  *
******************************************************

------------------------------