Re: filmscanners: Lamda, resolution + poor service

[Arthur Entlich <artistic@ampsc.com>]

PAUL GRAHAM wrote:

> 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?
> 
> pg

Buy your own Scitex and Lamda and start a very exclusive club?? ;-)

Art