Imagers, in Atlanta, http://www,imagers.com has a big reputation
among photographers I eavesdrop on.
i've had two experiences having a digital file made into a slide.
The first was with a local educational institution which had an old
film recorder. We didn't know quite just how big a file to try it
with, so we went for the largest possible which was 2700 dpi by 35mm
film size. - a 27 M file.
If the original film hadn't been so grainy to begin with the slide
would have been exquisite. Instead it was only grainy like the
original film which must have been at least 400 ISO negative film ( 9
years ago ). The slide took an hour and a half to output to film.
The second experience with with Imagers and they screwed up
completely. I prepared the file according to their specs and sent
it, along with some files for dye sub prints, to Atlanta. the specs
for the two outputs were drastically different, and I was upgrading
from 35mm to 70mm film from another of those early-in-my-life high
speed negative film scans. The slide was beautiful but even without
a loupe one could see massive lumps of grain.
So caveat emptor. And check around on photo.net for reports or discussions.
--
Emily L. Ferguson
mailto:elf@cape.com
508-563-6822
New England landscapes, wooden boats and races, press photography
http://www.vsu.cape.com/~elf
