On Sat, 19 May 2001 07:24:47 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> On Fri, 18 May 2001 20:36:34 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
>> Perhaps you should try to find one of the labs used by professional
>> photographers.
>> No, they don't all do their own film developing.
>> Some find it unnecessarily boring.
>> But they are likely to do all their own printing.
> Most professional photographers no longer do any of their own
> darkroom work. Custom Photo Labs are not hard to find and they will
> do exactly whatever you tell them to do.
> But they are much different operations than commercial photofinishers
> who are set up with expensive technology to process film and print
> photos in bulk.
> Custom Photo Labs specialize in doing what their clients want them
> to do. If you don't live in a larger city, then check the photomagazines
> for mailorder custom labs.
I have heard this before from the people who operate commercial labs.
I don't want custom developing. You have to pay a very high price
for it. I just want ordinary developing, which is good enough for me
for almost all of my photography. What I do not want is for the lab
to cut the film and mount the slides. I want developing only, and
nothing else. Why should anyone be forced to pay more to get less
"service"? I don't want a "custom" job. I just want a "partially
completed" job. A job order requesting the completion of only one
phase of the photo finishing process should not be treated as though
it were an order for a custom job.
Unfortunately the commercial labs will consider my request as an order
for a custom job and they will advise me to take my film elsewhere.
That is the way it is. There is nothing I can do about it. That should
bring the discussion on this off-topic subject to a close.
Sam Heywood
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