That hit the nail on the head. Long before digital I found my self unable to find a custom lab that was consistently good. And the WalMart type of lab was orrfull... I believe that most of the "serious" photographers when to digital because they could not get good processing.
Have folks noticed that the loudest "Film Is Dead" people here are the ones who can no longer make a living feeding it into an automatic machine? "Film is no longer a major mass market item", is an accurate statement. "Film is no longer a multi-billion dollar business", may be true. "Film is dead", is not. Hell, my landlady has a horse an buggy; and, no she does not use it to drive to work. graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- P. J. Alling wrote: > Actually, one reason that labs are folding is that even the crappiest > digital camera equals the quality you get from most labs, because > they're crappy too. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
