In a message dated 8/5/2007 10:18:25 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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.
... graywolf ----- Bingo. I began switching to digital via scanning in film days once I realized how much better I could make the images than many labs could. Joe ========= Yes. Well, there is one good lab in the area, but the colors often weren't what I wanted. Longs processing I gave up on, once the one person who knew what they were doing left. So I also switched to scanning and printing before I switched to a DSLR. Going to keep my Epson scanner, it may come in handy for old family photos. I think because I am in the Bay Area there are actually more decent labs left here than elsewhere, though. At least throughout the whole Bay Area, near me there is only one. I keep expecting them to go out of business, but evidentially they have upgraded enough at the right times to keep going and also evidentially their main business now is restoring/printing old photos and printing large sized photos. Although they do print digital photographs too, there are still quite a few people who do not want to do their own printing. As far as I know, they also still process film/slides. They saw the way the wind was blowing and changed enough in time, about three changes so far I think. Marnie aka Doe --------------------------------------------- Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
