Javier, that's slide film so you don't get prints
Velvia is
too saturated, ie. hyperreal, which is its appeal. The scans do have color balance issues - though you should be able to correct these yourself. "Pro" scanner services should be using film profiles to get the best possible results, but I suppose most don't.
Slide film development and scanning is more expensive than color print, but that's an awfully high price you paid. I just paid Dwayne's to develop & scan 2 rolls of 120 film, one slide and one print, for $24.43...
They'll do 36 mounted slides from 35mm film for $8.50 and scan them for $4.95 more.
They develop 35mm or 120 C41 for $3.99 and scan em for $2.99 - that's CVS pricing, but better scans, though you do have to pay postage on top.
By the way, I have trouble scanning Velvia at home, it's damn difficult to get things even approximately right, and I went crazy looking at various very different presentations, depending on choices made during the scan, and the different scanning softwares I used.
Ferrania 100 again, Super Tak 50/1.4, and the black lizard skin spottie. The meter on this camera is very sporadic, it didn't work at all for this roll. So I used the Force
to figure exposure.
There seems to have been a vogue to put photographs on headstones in the 1920's - most of the ones I see are from that period. Interesting, and kind of sweet.
Last edited by Nesster; 07-16-2010 at 07:31 AM.