Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/04/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Friends, May be someone should look up the meaning of the word Phillistine. I believe that many inhabitants of the Middle East trace their origins to that ancient culture. Let's be good Samaritans. Pax et Lux, Chris Fortunko > >The poster of the original message mentioned 2 things: >1.) he has not much experience with photography >2.) he shot B&W rolls for testing. > >>From 1.) I deduct he didn't develop the film by himself. >>From 2.) I conclude, that the finisher either put the B&W film >into the colour developers (which is possible with some modern emulsions) >*and* certainly printed the B&W negeatives on colour paper >using his standard automated printing machine. >(Otherwise our friend would have >paid a little fortune for printing, since B&W printers are very >uncommon these days and good b&W prints are extremely expensive >manual work) > >Printing B&W on colour papers always yields extremely *lousy* results >and you'd hardly tell the differences between photos taken by >a high-end camera or a children's toy. > >Maybe the original poster can comment on this, > Joerg > > >