I gave up on _any_ mail-order photo printing services after I had a piece of my film negatives lost, and when couple times I received a piece of somebody's else negative with mine. (the films were quite clearly different in their color gamma, as I liked shooting Agfa, and the other piece was Kodak). So, I am always trying to use the local print shop.
When I lived in NYC, Adorama was within walking distance, After trying a few other labs first, I tried Adorama, and liked it, and then found there a master whose vision of printing from negatives was close to mine. So, I was using Adorama, and was happy with it. The overall customer service and the attitude was what I would call typical for New York City: "business-tense", but living there you get used to it, and get surprised if you get anything better then that. Once I moved to the West Coast, I tried to continue using Adorama via mail, but there was some type of mixup, and I stoped after couple times. I tried a few labs locally, and found the one which does a good job (ChromeDigital), even though the lab is not ideal: they are open 8:30am-5pm weekdays, and closed on weekends. Igor On Jun 15, 2007, at 6:48 PM, Bill Lawlor wrote: > I ordered some 16X20 prints from Adoramapix for the Marin County > Fair Photo > Contest. Entries were due today. Two weeks ago Adorama assured me I > would > have the prints in a week. A few days ago, starting to worry, I > checked the > tracking number with the post office which sai they were delivered > to my > house. After calls to NY and the post office I gave up. Yesterday a > box > arrived on my porch.Hurray the Prints!. When I opened it they were > wrecked. > The box was VERY flimsy and somebody had stood on the box. I am > going back > to Pictopia.com for prints. More expensive, but they use mailing > tubes. > Bill Lawlor > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
