Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.rec.photo Subject: Re: Darkroom neophyte knows nothing Message-ID: <791@peora.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Apr-85 09:06:47 EST Article-I.D.: peora.791 Posted: Mon Apr 8 09:06:47 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Apr-85 20:05:10 EST References: <2720013@acf4.UUCP> <9667@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Lines: 31 > I would recommend doing type R work. This is print from slide work without > an intervening negative. I disagree. Prints-from-slides cost about twice as much as prints-from- negatives (i.e., the paper costs twice as much; typically $.60/8x10 compared to $.30/8x10; likewise the developer is a good bit more, and requires an extra processing step), and it's a lot harder, especially if you are just starting out, to develop the film itself (film as opposed to prints) since if you make a mistake you don't get a second chance. With negatives you can recover from minor processing errors when you do the printing. Thus many people send the slides to a lab to be developed; depriving themselves of the enjoyment of developing the film. The only really hard thing about color prints from negatives is getting the color correction right, since you can't see the image in the final colors (or, I should say, an approximation to the final colors) before printing it. Thus you need to use a color analyzer (or a filter mosaic) to get the colors right, unless you develop a really intuitive feel for the effects of changes in color correction filters. But (to sum up this attempt at an alternate viewpoint), personally I find color prints from negatives to be much more enjoyable. Partly this is because I have more experience at it -- I only tried Cibachrome once, and was already somewhat biased, I'll admit -- but I think it is less expensive, and more tolerant of the small errors that occur in home processing, than is the prints-from-slides approach. -- Full-Name: J. Eric Roskos UUCP: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer US Mail: MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642