Why not use a mail/web place like mpix? A friend of mine had some prints made from them and they did a great job.
Sent from my iPhone On Mar 6, 2008, at 9:20 PM, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unless you have time to do some serious testing, I would beg off on > this one. Shooting a friends wedding and working with labs you've > never worked with before? It's a recipe for disaster. And the loss of > a friend. > Paul > On Mar 6, 2008, at 8:54 PM, D. Glenn Arthur Jr. wrote: > >> I finally have a vehicle again (after an unlicensed, drunk car thief >> totalled my car and some of my neighbours' cars a year ago), and a >> friend asked me to shoot her wedding in May (I need to crawl through >> the list archives for old threads about what it's reasonable to >> charge so as to still be giving a friend a big break but not >> completely >> undermine the full-time pros' ability to charge saner fees) so I >> headed >> up to the lab to drop off some Velvia and to find out whether prices >> were the same as the last time I'd checked. >> >> *pout* They're gone. Front window papered over and a "for rent" >> sign >> on it. Bleah. >> >> So ... I searched online for photo labs in/near Baltimore, and so >> far I'm finding a whole lot of one-hour services in drug stores >> (*cringe*), one that looked promising until I dug deeper and saw >> that they don't develop film, only scan it and make digital prints >> (so I guess I could have the drug store develop it and then take >> the negatives there ...), and one that doesn't list prices and >> appears to only do machine prints (which, if the operator is serious >> and skilled, will do a lot of the time, but I'd like to know where >> to get colour done on an enlarger Just In Case). >> >> I was also planning to shoot some HIE, but I don't know whether any >> minilab machines are safe for that (I'll Google that later). I may >> wind up having to develop the HIE myself (in which case I guess I'd >> better shoot some practice rolls). >> >> >> >> So: who's still shooting film in my neck of the woods, and where >> do you take your colour film for processing? >> >> -- Glenn >> >> PS: I _might_ be able to borrow a DSLR for the day, but if I do, >> it'll be a Nikon, since that's what three or four of my bandmates >> are shooting. My own digicam is a 1.2 megapixel point&*shoot that >> is not going to be suitable for shooting a wedding. But my K2 and >> Program Plus are ready to go, if I can find a good place for the >> processing. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >> and follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
