lucky you. i tried labs in boston (lots) and nyc (some). both, 1-hr type and "pro" labs. haven't seen one that would give me back a remotely reasonable set of prints. of course, if i were to order "custom" prints -- that's a different story. and a totally different price point. the way i see it, the lack of reasonably priced processing/printing basically forces digital down my throat. when i pay $20 to get a set of lousy 4x6s that would make me want to yell, an inkjet starts looking *very* attractive. oversharpened or not.
best, mishka On 4/16/05, Bob Blakely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Y'a know, I'm sure there's a plethora of, well, let's just say "ordinary" > labs out there that are running 35mm through the machines and just > robot-like punching the buttons to select the machine's suggestion for > correction, if any, to be applied to prints. No doubt some labs are > stretching a little on their chemicals too. For some, it may be about money, > for others it may be about apathy. There are also labs out there where they > make every effort to insure that first of all, your negatives (positives) > will be the best that can be produced, given what you tell them, and that > the results will be uniformly excellent. I gave up on the small (1 hour > type) labs long ago when my negs were just not up to snuff, and especially > when I had some come back that looked like film that hadn't been in the hypo > long enough. I gave up on the department mega Wal-Mart stores when I > couldn't get decent printing. Right now, I gave up on the photography > superstores like Samy's when I couldn't talk with the techs any more. Now I > get everything done at Pro Photo Connection in Irvine, CA. They have an > impressive big money client list with many of their sometimes famous photos > on their walls and they want to keep it that way. Now, I'm a hack and they > treat me the same as the big money clients! It's great to turn in a roll of > 35, 120, 220 - whatever, and ask for whatever I want (within reason - push > 1, push 2, pull 1, etc.) and have things turn out like I expected with > perfect negatives and decent initial prints for proofs. It's also great to > be able to mark off areas of a print for differing amounts of exposure and > actually get what I want. They aren't cheap, but they are good and they are > dependable. > > Regards, > Bob... > ------------------------------------------------ > "A picture is worth a thousand words, > but it uses up three thousand times the memory." > > From: "Mishka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > So you cannot parse a short english sentence. > > That's all. > > > > Mishka > > > >> > even more (by a huge margin) stuff that's produced from film > >> > in the labs stinks. > >> > so? > >> > >> So you are a bad printer. > >> Thats all. > >
