Hi Dave; It sounds like your lab's printer is slightly out of focus. If you're dealing with a quality oriented lab as opposed to a drugstore 1 hr lab bring in some samples of both and show them the difference. Machines can slowly drift out of focus and nobody noticed. Be forewarned that some labs, especially wedding/portrait labs will sometimes run their machines slightly soft on focus on purpose as it hides minor blemishes etc. When I first got my 645 I was not impressed with the prints I was getting from it. I was using a wedding lab. I shot some B&W and all the benefits of MF were evident. I then took a color neg to the minilab I worked at and it too was tack sharp, noticeably sharper then the proof I got from the wedding lab.
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