I screwed up - BUT!

So, I had the wrong ASA (ISO) setting on my camera for the whole roll of Tmax 100. I get the negs and scans back from the well known lab and they look as horrible as I might expect. But before I toss the negs, just for fun I put them in my Epson V600 with no special settings - and no post processing either, just straight from the scanner. Some difference. Hard for me to believe that the lab could not have done the same.

 

 

Hard for me to believe that the lab could not have done the same.

 

Have you asked them why they didn't?

 

WW

Have you asked them why they didn't?

 

WW

 

I sent them an email with both of the above attached on Saturday. Will they reply???

Edited August 29, 2021 by chuck909

The lab is giving you back "unprocessed" scans - the right thing to do. The V600 scan has had adjustments made to it - to black/white points. I think you could easily do the same to your original lab scans if you wanted, without re-scanning anything.

The lab is giving you back "unprocessed" scans - the right thing to do. The V600 scan has had adjustments made to it - to black/white points. I think you could easily do the same to your original lab scans if you wanted, without re-scanning anything.

In point of fact, I just got an email back from the lab, and they DID admit that they SHOULD haver done better.

The lab is giving you back "unprocessed" scans - the right thing to do. The V600 scan has had adjustments made to it - to black/white points. I think you could easily do the same to your original lab scans if you wanted, without re-scanning anything.

 

Especially when there are highlights that may or may not be interesting.

 

Some years ago, I ordered 200 Christmas cards from Shutterfly, with a nice looking

JPG file with normal printing. It seems that there was a small corner that was very bright,

and looked fine white. But somehow they processed it such that the whole scene was

very dark.

 

They nicely gave credit for them, and I found plenty of other things to buy.

(I have bought lots from them, and that is the only one that failed.)

 

In the shot above, the aluminum wheels are very shiny, possibly the cause of the

darkness of the rest of the scene. People would know that, but computers won't.