On Thursday, December 6, 2001, at 12:48 AM, aimcompute wrote: > I think Mafud does have a point here. There's a difference between > taking > your digital camera into a department store and getting their > run-of-the-mill prints back, and taking it to a pro-lab. Same with > film. > > I haven't priced this... but I would guess there is a price > difference, a > quality difference, and a capability difference. > > I don't take my regular film to a Wal-Mart (no offense Bill). If it's > family snapshots, yes I do. I usually shoot transparency, so I take it > to > the best "pro" lab in town I know of, Media Specialties. >
Mafud was arguing that there is an "outrageous" price discrepancy between printing from digital vs. printing from negs, making it unsuitable for granny. In response, we listed two pro labs and Wal-Mart as pricing their digital and chemical the same -- not the same as each other, mind you. I truly doubt that Wal-Mart charges as much as I do for a chemical print. Just that Wal-Mart charges one price, regardless of media, and that the pro labs listed also charge one price regardless of media. No one on this list (aside from Mafud) ever said that Wal-Mart was a pro lab, or that Wal-Mart's prices were comparable to those of a pro lab. Mafud has, however, six times now evaded the question of pricing at his lab of choice (though he took great pains to explain how expensive they are). We can only be forced to assume that he was making it up, and that there is, in fact, not a great price discrepancy between chemical and digital prints there. How are the prices at Media Specialties when you compare digital to chemical? -Aaron - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
