When I was shooting 67's and having the film processed and proofed at my local wedding lab, the total cost of film/develop/proof was about $1.35 per frame. Certainly not too cheap. The other problem around here was that labs all switched over to digital equipment, so even though my lab had all the masks and lenses to print the 67 negs, they were using the crappy scanners on the Agfa D-Lab, so once you got past a 12 X 18, the image quality started to suffer because of the scan. Getting a good scan to print bigger was very costly. This cost and changeover of the local labs was one of the reasons I started to look into digital. I can only guess that the situation is even worse 2 1/2 years later.
-- Bruce Wednesday, March 22, 2006, 6:48:47 AM, you wrote: WR> ----- Original Message ----- WR> From: "Aaron Reynolds" WR> Subject: Re: mid format cameras - running cost? was:RE: DS vs DL viewfinder? >> >> >> Many one-hour style labs are capable of processing 120 film, however that >> does not mean that the operators of the lab know how to do it or are any >> good at it. You're probably best to find the lab that the local >> wedding/portrait guys send their film to. WR> Minor quibble: WR> While many 1hr labs can process 120 C-41 (I think all Noritsu film WR> processors can do it), very few will have the needed masks and lenses to WR> print it. WR> Also, I have found that when i am processing 120 film at work, the WR> possiblity of getting tar spots is greater, since the 120 film is running in WR> an unused section of the racks, and glop tends to collect around that part WR> of the machine. WR> William Robb
