Why Slides Versus Prints in the First Place?
When I first learned my photography, I was using an Instamatic box camera with the cartridge film. I’d shoot a roll of film and then my Mom and Dad would take us to the photoshop where we’d get prints made. We not only had to pay for the developing of the film, but also the developing of the prints. Sometimes, the photoshop would print photos that were hopeless. This might have been my fault because the film was incorrectly exposed or focused or was blurred. But many times, I had exposed it correctly, but an inexperienced technician at the photoshop would try to adjust the exposure to make it “normal”. This usually happens only when you take out-of-the-ordinary shots that do not cover the usual range of colors and contrasts. A usual picture–especially one that’s recognizable to the average technician at a photolab–presents no problems for creating a print. The technician can adjust it accordingly to get the skin-tones right or to get something else that’s easily recognizable to be ri
