Hi. I've been away from photography for the last 12 years while I was off getting married, having a kid, fixing up houses, moving, getting a real job and such. When I fell out of photography, I was all fired up to build my own darkroom, and I had just started developing b&w negs. I was just about to try my hand at contact prints. Then I lost my make shift darkroom (basement sink). I had also purchased my first box of 55 P/N which I never shot. I also shot a lot of Velvia and Ekachrome in MF.
Now, 12 years later, the bug has bit again, but it is a different world. I always preferred to shoot color on slide, most likely because my Dad always shot slide. I always felt that it showed the true color and you saw exactly what was there. My Dad also enlarged on Cibrachrome. Now I'm thinking about printing for sales at art shows and such and I don't know what to shoot anymore.
I don't like having all my work on slides and getting stuck with out a way to create analog prints if Ilforchrome dies. When I had slides printed before at the Pro lab, they used internegatives and I never really liked the results. I never felt that the print matched what I wanted it to look like. The results were kind of muddy. It was hard to get the feel I wanted. (They didn't like me being so picky either.) But I never really liked the prints from color negs that came from the 1 hour places either. I guess I could consider scanning and sending out for a LightJet print, but $20 a print is a little too high for me and I feel like I don't have control over the whole process which always bothered me before.
- Is there any way to print analog from a slide on print paper?
- Is it hard to get softer pastel colors on Ilforchrome?
- Can I get high quality color prints of landscape and nature using print film?
- If I shoot print film, how do I keep from degrading the negative when enlarging numerous copies? Can I use EDUPE to create a working negative?
- How do I make a working copy of a b&w negative?
- Do folks that print on LightJets feel like they still have full control over the print?
- Is slide or print better for scanning?
All opinions are welcome.
Thanks!
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