Rocketman
Hello everyone!
Can anyone tell me which specialist lab produces 24x30 prints from 6x7 negatives?
I usually only work in black and white in my own darkroom, but I’d like to use my Mamiya to perform exposure on Agfa RSX film and have it cross-processed. I don’t have the facilities to make colour prints myself. But which lab does this, and who can print my medium-format negatives for a reasonable price???
I’d be very grateful for your tips!
Best regards,
Sebastian Wolniczak
Rodinal
Hi Sebastian!
It’s simple: dm !!
Medium-format development costs the same as 35mm, i.e. 95 pence per roll. They’ll also cross-process a transparency film for you.
6x6 prints in 20x20 format cost … 85 pence … or thereabouts. So it’s hardly worth mentioning. Always tick ‘special request’ on the bag and write on the back: Diacross C41 development, or 20x20 or 30x30 prints, or ~20x24 in your case
Quality:
Usually quite decent, but I’ve also had some dull prints.
cfb_de
Hello "Rodinal", hello Sebastian,
In my view, dm is fairly straightforward.
Basically, they do everything that’s in their brochure. However, when it comes to special requests, in my experience it increasingly depends on the person (oh dear, I really have learnt about “diversity management”) who unpacks the bag and decides how the film should be processed.
That explains the errors with “Cross”. And it doesn’t matter whether Cewe, Eurocolor or the local minilab is responsible.
As for “ticking the format”, my experience is that the smallest specification is on the narrow side. If the negatives are “landscape” on the film. Naturally, the larger, misleading specification is then calculated in the same way as for 35mm.
Which means 6x7 landscape would be clearly favoured over 6x6, and 6x7 portrait would be clearly disadvantaged compared to 6x6. We’d better not even get into this discrimination against digital or even 35mm snappers :-)
Best regards,
Franz
