Almost all commercial print labs in the US expect an sRGB image. If you
send them something else they will convert it.
Chuck Norcutt
C.H.Ling wrote:
> No, the Fuji minilabs here use Frontier machine, it laser expose the regular
> print paper, no inks. I believe all other minilabs use similar technique and
> I know an old Agfa machine uses CRT to expose print paper, no ink for all
> small prints
>
> C.H.Ling
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Hudson" <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>> Don't commercial print labs use the CMYK regimen of print colours and
>> inks?
>>
>> jh
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "C.H.Ling" <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 11:49 AM
>> Subject: Re: [OM] On free film...
>>
>>
>>> Yes, the minilab scan has very different color calibration to normal
>>> sRGB,
>>> usually very high sharpening too. A proper scanned and adjusted image
>>> will
>>> be much better, just finished 19 rolls of negatives from a trip to Europe
>>> in
>>> 1992. Here are two samples:
>>>
>>> Olympus XA, F5.6, Kodak Gold 100-2
>>>
>>> http://www.accura.com.hk/temp/EU92_04_15.jpg
>>>
>>> OM40, Kodak Ektar 100, Zuiko 35-105 1st version (early morning, shot
>>> through
>>> holtel room window)
>>>
>>> http://www.accura.com.hk/temp/EU92_16_03.jpg
>>>
>>> C.H.Ling
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>> Jim Nichols wrote:
>>>>>> I would agree with you. My little 6.3mp Fujifilm F10 has produced
>>>>>> some
>>>>>> images that just blew me away. After several years of having C41 film
>>>>>> processed to CD by a department store lab, I was amazed at the
>>>>>> resolution
>>>>>> that the little camera provided.
>>>>>>
>>>> Hardly a fair comparison. Nothing against the F10, I liked mine so much
>>>> I went to an F30 and Carol is still using the F10. On the other hand, if
>>>> you shot it with the EV setting wrong and a softening filter, then
>>>> mis-set contrast in an editor, that would be closer to what was being
>>>> done to your film shots.
>>>>
>>>> The difference between a minilab CD of scanned film images and proper
>>>> scans is just enormous.
>>>>
>>>> Moose
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