Re: w.j.markerink's lame opinions about print options

[Bob Atherton <gdm12@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

evphoto@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> re: Getting prints from slides *is* getting easier and better every
> year, but only through the digital route,...
>
> to which I reply: what pernicious bullshit. Getting prints from
> transparencies is even more straightforward than from color negatives because
> it is easier to get the color matched. Yous hould know better.

In my experience getting decent prints from colour trans is almost impossible.
Over the years my clients take trannies that I've shot and surreptitiously get
some reversal prints made.  The contrast is *always* way over the top.  Last week
I had a job from an ad agency that wanted some 40" x 30" prints of campaign stuff
to decorate their reception walls, this was only going to be a 1 off print job.
So I shot it on colour neg stock,  but I also shot a couple of sheets of trannie
as a reference to my printer.  The results ( though I say it myself ) were pretty
good.  I think one of the the problem is that trannies have a higher perceived
quality,  I guess negatives don't look so sexy on a light box!
Bob Atherton