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filmscanners: Lamda, resolution + poor service
Update on trying to get a good Lamda print done:
Went to a repro lab recommended by Fuji, and after carefully explaining what
I wanted from them - highest quality, finest detail and optimum resolution
from my 5x7 inch negative, to output a 45" print, I came back the next day
to be shown a 37Mb file... (from their $25,000 Scitex)
I asked the operator to show me a histogram of the image and he didn't know
what that was!
He then assured me that it would scale (interpolate) up to a 45" print at
400 dpi with "barely any loss of quality"
when I expressed dismay and asked why I had to accept interpolated pixels on
their $300,000 Lamda machine output, rather than using the ample real
pixels,, I have on my neg, (or at least every other pixel being real) I was
told, sheepishly, that big files clog up the machines memory, and the other
operators get upset at their jobs being queued.
Can anyone suggest a way out of this?
Obviously I can't buy a Lamda, so what can you do to get quality in this
situation?
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