Re: Good Slides from negatives? John B. ( digest 1510)

[P3D Don Chaps <dchaps@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, P3D Bob Howard wrote:

> RE: John B. asks the question if grain and quality OK?
> I submit all motion pictures you see in theaters are from internegatives
> to print stock. (Technicolor was even more remarkable, from three b&W
> separation negatives made in the Technicolor camera.)
> Also I shot Yellowstone in color neg EKTAR film and went straight to
> photo CD discs which have quality that matches any CDs I had made from
> slide film..if not better! BobH
> (this will also test if Bob Wier got the glitch fixed..I see other
> address not in path.)
> 
> 
I agree. Kodak has recently improved their PCDs. It's worth it to look 
for a lab that has done the upgrade. Kodak, through mailers, of course. 
AlphaCD in Menlo Park CA was a beta site for Kodak' upgrade and they will 
work from realist format. I ran some tests a while back and found 
negative to PCD definately better quality than slide to PCD. If you have 
pix in which the lighting varies from normal amatuer pix, ask the lab to 
"scanlock". If you're shooting the whole roll under the same lighting, 
shooting a grey card on the first frame and asking to have the whole roll 
printed with that filterpack might be a good idea.

Don


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