FA Limited
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n00b question ...
Are lab prints made from C-41 nowadays made using scans from Nortisu / Frontier machines? i was wondering if it was worth it to get prints along with my usual develop + cd.
Are lab prints made from C-41 nowadays made using scans from Nortisu / Frontier machines? i was wondering if it was worth it to get prints along with my usual develop + cd.
whickus
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most labs only print from scans these days, so if you always order prints at the same time that you have your film developed, there are two things that happen:
1. you'll end up spending way too much money having everything printed.
2. you won't have a chance to make your own edits to the photos. the prints will be left completely up to the discretion of the lab's auto scanner settings and/or lab tech's decisions.
you're better off taking them home, editing the photos yourself, then deciding which ones to have printed.
1. you'll end up spending way too much money having everything printed.
2. you won't have a chance to make your own edits to the photos. the prints will be left completely up to the discretion of the lab's auto scanner settings and/or lab tech's decisions.
you're better off taking them home, editing the photos yourself, then deciding which ones to have printed.
FA Limited
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thanks whickus, confirmed my suspicions 
philipp.leser
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In my limited experience the cheap prints that you can get when developing films at the drug store (5 cents for 9x13cm^2 prints here , for example) are awful and a lot worse than what cheap prints used to look like years ago.
They actually manage to make the prints look like prints from bad digital files (oversharpened, oversaturated, sometimes visible pixels).
They actually manage to make the prints look like prints from bad digital files (oversharpened, oversaturated, sometimes visible pixels).