Reala Film and Kodak Paper

[kevino]

Hello all,

Just curious if any of you have had any experience having your Reala film printed on Kodak paper.

I use Reala for my color stuff and always send it to Dale Labs in Florida (they process C-41 and print on Kodak paper). I've always been very pleased with the results - processing/4x5's and enlargements.

This weekend I took a roll of Reala and a roll of 400 xtra to Wolf Camera and had them process and print on their Fuji Frontier Machine. I was a little dissappointed. Many of the prints are (what appear to me to be) a little too red - especially peoples faces. The feller at the counter assured me that they color correct and thats "just the way it is" - Whatever, won't be going back there again.

I'm wondering if this is a processing/printing error or a characteristic of the Reala and Superia printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper as opposed to Kodak.

I know a lot of you here only have your film processed and then scan the negs yourselves. But I'd like some feedback from those who have prints made as well.

Thanks

 

[Kat]

I'm not sure about Reala, since I never used it, but I remember years ago every time I had a Kodak shop print my Fuji film, the results were always disappointing. Nowadays, I always take Fuji film to a Fuji lab.

 

[Trius]

The guy behind the counter is either lying or doesn't know what he's talking about. Imagine... a Fuji film that can't print properly on Fuji paper.... DUH!

I recently had a jpg of a Reala neg printed on Kodak paper and it looked pretty good (except for the JPG issues); next I'll take the original neg to a lab that uses Fuji Frontier, then to a lab that produces optical prints on Kodak paper. I want to see the differences.

Earl

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

Reala can be improved by rating it at 80 ISO, rather than the 100 ISO it says on the box.