Re: Hurrah for Shel Disrobing the Emperor

[Tom C]

I don't see Shel's conclusions as beng particularly earth-shattering news.  
Quality of prints has always been highly variable.  Totally dependent on the 
skill, attention and interest of the person doing the work. Ivey/Seright in 
Seattle is probably the best known pro-lab in that town.  I've never been 
totally happy with their product when it came to printing transparencies, 
while the Slide Printer in Denver impressed me greatly.

For consumers/non-pros just learning digital, it's a given that they/I will 
fart around and learn largely through trial and error.  Likely the same way 
most people learned what works best in a wet darkroom.

Digital will be more time consuming for anyone doing it all themselves, just 
as film processing in a wet darkroom would be.

I'm not downing Shel, simply saying that his observations are to be expected 
and don't apply only to digital

Tom C.

From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Subject: Re: Hurrah for Shel Disrobing the Emperor
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:52:28 -0600
----- Original Message ----- From: "Herb Chong" Subject: Re: Hurrah for 
Shel Disrobing the Emperor


in a conversation with Hardie Truesdale, featured in Outdoor Photographer 
last year, on why he went to doing his own digital prints. "yes, it's a 
hell of a lot cheaper. it didn't matter how much i paid the top outfits on 
the east or west coast to make my prints, they still couldn't get it 
right."
It's the peril of the trades.
I had trouble getting carpenters, plumbers and electricians to do things 
right as well, to the point I just do it myself now.
Blaming the medium for a lack of good workmanship seems a bit foolish to 
me.

William Robb