Re: [APML]: "yellow minus two"

[Gregory David Stempel <fyrframe@ptinet.net>]

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Yellow minus two should mean stops. In photography there is a term in
developing film stated as N or N+1, or N-2, etc. This means normal minus
two stops. Or, take the normal developing time and process to
effectively decrease the films exposure two complete stops. In printing
color negs, you dial in cmy filters to adjust you colors. One of the
knobs is for yellow, this needs to read two stops less than cyan and
magenta. 

Keep in mind, the usual 1 hour lab is a high volume area, using machines
to do all of the work, and minimum wage (or so) employees who basically
stick the film in one end and take it out of the other. Also, ask the
lab if they look at each roll or just "batch process" everything.

In all of my years as a photographer, I refused to use one hours, unless
the client was in a big hurry. Wait till you get the "We are sorry..."
letter and new rolls of film, because someone did not change the
developers, or something scractched all of the negs on one roll, or....

Finally, one hours are not set up to do push processing, and therefore
your costs increase dramatically. They are geared toward E6 processing,
the standard "tourist" films.

The pro lab I use has processed more than a thousand rolls of my film,
not one problem, not once.

Take care
Gregory david Stempel