[robski]

Ian

Send your roll of film to a dozen different processing labs and your see a dozen different sets of results ranging from good to bad. Negative film has a wide latitude and is very forgiving. Positive~Slide film on the other hand is far less forgiving. The users of this film felt entitled to wear the badge "Correct out of the camera".

Those of us who have experienced the darkroom are used to controlling the image by cropping, burning, dodging, selecting grades of paper etc.

As already mentioned you will realise that all images are processed when you sit and think about it. Even in the digital world where two manufactures use the same sensor the results are different. Different algorithms used to produce the image file. You may even bring into account the different colours of lens coatings.

Personally I don't have the time or the inclination to spend hours editing images. Normally if an image needs more than five minutes to crop and tweak levels and sharpness then it's heading towards the trash can.

Mind you I'd be interested to see how steve produces his Hi-key images.